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Re: [ontolog-forum] fitness of XML for ontology

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From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:00:26 -0500
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On 2/6/14 7:02 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 2/6/14 4:25 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
>> Since Ed agrees with me, I agree with him.  Amazon.com, for example,
>> uses an XML representation for messages to suppliers and partners.
>> But their DB itself is relational.  And their XML encoding is more
>> compact and readable than if they had used RDF/XML.
> If they used RDF (forget about the RDF/XML notation) they would have a 
> much better system. I would have a common username with multiple 
> passwords, for instance. In addition, EC2 images would be really easy 
> to understand rather that being a leap of fate that could burn a hole 
> in your pockets just because its too mangled at the RDBMS level for 
> them to produce a sensible UI etc..
>
> Amazon, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.. are all struggling with:
>
> 1. coreference
> 2. privacy
> 3. data integration
> 4. silo-fication in an era of de-silo-fication. 
Correction, typing to fast etc.. Meant to say:    (01)


If they used RDF (forget about the RDF/XML notation) they would have a 
much better system. I *wouldn't* have a common username with multiple 
passwords, for instance i.e., logging in with different passwords 
determine my identity to Amazon :-(    (02)

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Regards,    (04)

Kingsley Idehen 
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