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sci-ontologist
This is not meant to be a troll. I'm not at all sure I believe what
follows. I *might* believe it.
And I am curious to see what reaction it will get from this group:
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RDF is a technology for attaching "semantic meaning"
to "web resources," and also a way to advertise that meaning.
Figuring out "semantic meaning" amounts to a natural language
problem. This means it cannot be done (or done very well) by
computers. So, if RDF cannot be generated robotically,
and if useful amounts of queriable RDF data are ever
going to exist, then that RDF data will have to be manually
created, essentially from the keyboard.
Further, because RDF has an obscure, user-unfriendly syntax,
we can assume it cannot and will not be hand edited by
humans who are NOT "knowledge engineers."
In other words, only highly trained smart people can ever be
expected to make RDF.
Finally, because useful RDF data can only
be produced by highly trained professionals, it will in fact,
never get produced. So this whole RDF-semantic-web enterprise
is a fantasy that will never happen....or, at best, it will
exist as small scale pockets of locally and expertly produced
data.
follows. I *might* believe it.
And I am curious to see what reaction it will get from this group:
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RDF is a technology for attaching "semantic meaning"
to "web resources," and also a way to advertise that meaning.
Figuring out "semantic meaning" amounts to a natural language
problem. This means it cannot be done (or done very well) by
computers. So, if RDF cannot be generated robotically,
and if useful amounts of queriable RDF data are ever
going to exist, then that RDF data will have to be manually
created, essentially from the keyboard.
Further, because RDF has an obscure, user-unfriendly syntax,
we can assume it cannot and will not be hand edited by
humans who are NOT "knowledge engineers."
In other words, only highly trained smart people can ever be
expected to make RDF.
Finally, because useful RDF data can only
be produced by highly trained professionals, it will in fact,
never get produced. So this whole RDF-semantic-web enterprise
is a fantasy that will never happen....or, at best, it will
exist as small scale pockets of locally and expertly produced
data.