{"id":126,"date":"2003-05-22T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=187"},"modified":"2003-05-22T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T09:17:00","slug":"timbls-www2003-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/05\/timbls-www2003-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"TimBL&#8217;s WWW2003 Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.cs.cornell.edu\/AllThingsDistributed\/archives\/000058.html\">Werner Vogels writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThe keynote was by Tim Berners-Lee who did a truly awful job in trying to make a connection between web services and the semantic web.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Yup, absolutely agreed.  I read over\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2003\/Talks\/0521-www-keynote-tbl\/\">his slides<\/a> last night, and,\nlike Werner says, was waiting for some new connection to be presented that I also\nhadn&#8217;t considered.  But nope.  Very disappointing.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I know what Tim was trying to do though.  He was trying to\n&#8220;embrace and extend&#8221; Web services by convincing people that they needed the\nSemantic Web for data integration, with the expectation that once it is in use,\nthat the need for application-specific interfaces would melt away.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m confident that won&#8217;t work.  For one, if there&#8217;s anything that&#8217;s held\nin more contempt by Web services proponents than the Web for app-to-app\nintegration, it&#8217;s the Semantic Web.  They\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/www-ws-arch\/2003May\/0261.html\">see it<\/a>\nas an academic exercise, and irrelevant to the &#8220;needs of business&#8221;.  Of course\nthat&#8217;s wrong, but the belief that it&#8217;s true is pervasive in this community.\nIt seems that &#8220;the needs of business&#8221; has become synonymous with architectural\nstyles that resemble CORBA and DCOM.  It is <em>that<\/em> which needs to be\nrefuted.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if Tim will keep up this tact when facing the\narchitectural problems with Web services in response to my\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/2003\/05\/21#2003-05-ws-tag\">issue to the TAG<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Werner Vogels writes; The keynote was by Tim Berners-Lee who did a truly awful job in trying to make a connection between web services and the semantic web. Yup, absolutely agreed. I read over his slides last night, and, like Werner says, was waiting for some new connection to be presented that I also hadn&#8217;t [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}