Re: [ontology-summit] INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML

[David Price <dprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/3/2012 5:02 AM, John F. Sowa wrote:

As I've said before, the *worst* feature of the Semantic Web
is the word 'Web'.  What we need are Semantic *Systems* that
accommodate everything and anything.

An argument for an alternative view:

Given the ubiquity of the Internet/HTTP as a platform for communication everywhere on the planet and beyond, it makes perfect sense to build semantic technologies aimed at that platform. It's easy to argue that doing so is likely to have the broadest impact in the shortest time. That the system we need must accommodate 'everything and anything' is a requirement that's not been placed on any other information technology and would likely mean decades more delay.

The W3C Semantic Web activity is the main reason ontology and semantics are growing in interest at all. People had been working for decades in AI/semantics but it was the W3C effort that  pushed 'ontology' towards being something widespread industry is beginning to understand. Nobody is suggesting that RDF/OWL are perfect, only that it's had more impact than the previous four decades of effort as far as making semantics a topic of interest in industry at-large.

Cheers,
David

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