{"id":586,"date":"2004-12-07T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/12\/07\/the-de-facto-semantic-web\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T17:57:00","slug":"the-de-facto-semantic-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/12\/the-de-facto-semantic-web\/","title":{"rendered":"The de facto Semantic Web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Sowa&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfsowa.com\/computer\/standard.htm\">Law of Standards<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2004\/12\/07.html#a1128\">Jon Udell writes;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nMy guess is that we&#8217;ll see a de facto alternative to the W3C&#8217;s proposed semantic-web standards &#8212; Web Ontology Language and RDF\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It could happen, but I don&#8217;t think so.  I could definitely see a\nnew XML serialization of RDF happening this way though, but RDF itself?\nIt&#8217;s already very simple, and has even sacrificed some expressiveness (e.g.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/robustai.net\/sailor\/grammar\/Quads.html\">quads<\/a>)\nin the name of maintaining that simplicity.  I think that&#8217;s good and healthy, and\nI can&#8217;t imagine any other spec doing what it can and being any simpler,\nnor can I imagine being able to remove much from RDF and still have it be\nuseful to a lot of people.<\/p>\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done enough with OWL to have a strong feeling about it, but it\ndoesn&#8217;t seem to add much in the way of (required) complexity AFAICT.  For\nmost people, it&#8217;s, just another RDF vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the same post he also references some words by Mike O&#8217;Dell on the\nproblems with DNS.  He comments;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nI have no idea whether, or how, &#8220;distributed system technology&#8221; might finesse the governance issue. But it&#8217;s a challenge worth pondering.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Jon might be interested in what the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zlab.commerce.net\">zLabs<\/a>\n(&#8220;z&#8221; for &#8220;decentralization&#8221;) are up to, in particular the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zlab.commerce.net\/wiki\/index.php\/ZNS\">zNS<\/a>\nproject (not much there yet, but the objective is clear at least).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by Sowa&#8217;s Law of Standards, Jon Udell writes; My guess is that we&#8217;ll see a de facto alternative to the W3C&#8217;s proposed semantic-web standards &#8212; Web Ontology Language and RDF It could happen, but I don&#8217;t think so. I could definitely see a new XML serialization of RDF happening this way though, but RDF [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,40],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-w3c","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}