Slashdot talks about Ontologies?. Okay, it's like a virus spreading around. Slashdot just posted this article on new W3C Drafts, including an OWL Guide... Oof. I'm just starting to get a handle on this stuff...
People at W3C seem to have had a busy Friday, according to their website. They have released no less than 4 working drafts (Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide, the QA Working group - Introduction, Process and Operational Guidelines, Specification Guidelines) and 2 proposed recommendations: XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 and HTML DOM 2. I spent a good 2 or 3 hours yesterday going over the RDF stuff again. It's definitely not a technology for mere mortals nor something you can just pick up in one sitting. I find myself grokking only portions of the Semantic Web at a time. I wonder if its because these Brains that are creating it have a hard time talking to us lesser beings or because the technology/implementation is just too complex...
-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]
I think it just comes from a different history and perspective.
RDF comes from the AI research world, so it aims at being very general.
But its power will come throuhg simple applications, such as RSS or the use that is made out of it in mozilla.
What I like in it is that it's very web friendly. I think of RDF as the web way of looking at the world.
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