On 3/8/2011 1:49 PM, Bart Gajderowicz wrote:
> The point I'm making is that in order to reduce blank stares, promote
> ontologies and increase adoption of semantics, we must
> - speak our audience's language
> - promote the semantic technologies they have adopted on mass, even
> if we don't agree with those technologies 100% (01)
I completely agree. (02)
Within any large company, there are always a few "early adopters" who
dabble in new ideas. Those people have probably heard the phrase
'Semantic Technology' and the word 'ontology'. But none of the
mainstream applications use such technology. (03)
The people I blame are *not* IT managers. I put the blame
where it belongs: on the W3C. Note slides 21 to 23 of (04)
http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/iss.pdf (05)
When the W3C started to talk about the Semantic Web in the late
1990s, nearly every commercial web site was built around a relational
database. If the W3C had integrated the Semantic Web with RDBs,
the SW would have been the obvious growth path for the future. (06)
Instead, they took the arrogant stance "We are the future,
and RDBs are the past." (07)
I said that attitude was provincial. The response I got was
"No. We're not provincial. We're big." (08)
But just look at the data. The amount of the world's data that's
stored in RDF is a tiny fraction of 1% of what's on the WWW. (09)
And look at Web companies like Google and Amazon. Google uses JSON,
and the W3C is scrambling to catch up to what they should have done
in the 1990s. Meanwhile, Amazon uses SOAP to specify the interfaces
between their RDBs and their customers' RDBs. They have a huge
influence on how businesses organize and describe their data. (010)
John (011)
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