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Re: Semantic Web: A Summary, and a Discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reinier Post)
Wed Nov 8 11:45:40 2000
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:35:49 +0100
From: Reinier Post <reinpost@win.tue.nl>
To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>,
www-talk@w3.org
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In-Reply-To: <00a301c0480d$e610a880$1bdd93c3@z5n9x1>; from Sean B. Palmer on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:22:36PM -0000
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:22:36PM -0000, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
> 1. What really *is* the Semantic Web?
[...]
> My 2c worth:
> 1. The Semantic Web is a machine processble self describing web of
> extensible dynamic languages. It is logic based, but essentially provides a
> huge database of Semantically marked up information, ready for output (whcih
> should itself be Semantic).
Allow me to add my own Hfl 0.05.
Calling something "semantic" doesn't make it meaningful.
Meaning is in the eye of the interpreter.
+ what do you mean by 'self describing'?
+ who or what is supposed to understand the description exactly?
+ why is 'the universe of XML documents' not a good implementation
of 'the semantic web'?
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Reinier Post reinpost@win.tue.nl
