Comments on: Thinking about the Semantic Web http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/01/26/thnking-about-the-semantic-web/ Weblog for the Mindswap research group at University of Maryland Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:46:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: James Hendler http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/01/26/thnking-about-the-semantic-web/#comment-8 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:53:29 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/01/26/thnking-about-the-semantic-web/#comment-8 Thanks for the slide pointer, I think that a very important subset of OWL (or superset of RDFS, depending how you look at it) is RDFS extended with the "property" properties of OWL - this is the subset primarily used in FOAF, its what you use in those examples, and I think using those to link SKOS stuff to OWL will be particularly interesting in the long run. I did mention some of this in <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/presentations/XML2005Keynote.pdf " rel="nofollow">my XML 05 talk </a> (apologies, it's a big PDF file) and emphasized that one of the differences between the XML view of the world and the Semantic Web view of the world was again sort of a documents vs. links perspective... now if we could get more of our Sem Web buddies to share it :-) Thanks for the slide pointer, I think that a very important subset of OWL (or superset of RDFS, depending how you look at it) is RDFS extended with the “property” properties of OWL - this is the subset primarily used in FOAF, its what you use in those examples, and I think using those to link SKOS stuff to OWL will be particularly interesting in the long run. I did mention some of this in my XML 05 talk (apologies, it’s a big PDF file) and emphasized that one of the differences between the XML view of the world and the Semantic Web view of the world was again sort of a documents vs. links perspective… now if we could get more of our Sem Web buddies to share it :-)

]]> by: Ian Davis http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/01/26/thnking-about-the-semantic-web/#comment-6 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:52:41 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2006/01/26/thnking-about-the-semantic-web/#comment-6 I agree completely. Very little, if any, of the semantics of RDF or OWL are new or innovative. The true innovation is in the network links, the same leap that TBL took with the creation of the web from earlier hypertext systems. I presented a little on this at the Dublin Core conf. last year: http://research.talis.com/2005/frbr-dc2005/ (slides 22/23 on Grounding Schemas) I agree completely. Very little, if any, of the semantics of RDF or OWL are new or innovative. The true innovation is in the network links, the same leap that TBL took with the creation of the web from earlier hypertext systems.

I presented a little on this at the Dublin Core conf. last year: http://research.talis.com/2005/frbr-dc2005/ (slides 22/23 on Grounding Schemas)

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