OK. Here's something worth thinking about. With all of the pie-in-the-sky 'blather' we create around here, here's something I noticed 8 years ago and I can't believe nobody's soleved this problem either...
"An oft-heard rallying cry against the annotation methods peculiar to the Semantic Web is “But nobody ever does that!”
True or not, I don’t think countering this viewpoint is productive. I honestly don’t.
“Nobody does real metadata! Nobody does annotation!” howls the geek, as he goes to his bookshelf, picks out his latest computer book, and thumbs through the index.
“Everyone must do metadata!” cries the semanticist, picking up an unindexed book of poetry.
I tell all y’all what. Leave out the modals, the “must” and “should.” Leave out the indefinite pronouns, the “nobody” and “everyone.” Then go out and find the very real people who do do metadata and annotation. Learn what they do.
I mean, with all of this Semantic Web blather, not a single solitary soul has come up with a decent UI for an indexing app for marked-up text. NOBODY. NOBODY!"
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