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Sunday, July 14, 2002Aaron Crane: Why XML is technologically terrible, but you have to use it anyway. Largely because everybody is doing it (and besides it's not that terrible).
Posted to xml @ 11:26:19 PM ( comments)
Mark Baker: UDDI v3 Announced; did anybody notice? I definitely noticed. "Besides the ability to mark UDDI registration data with identifiers, another design goal is the ability to assign category information. Without categorization, locating data within a UDDI registry would prove to be very difficult. Especially for the discovery of previously unknown businesses, services, bindings or service types, it is indispensable that the corresponding UDDI registration data is marked with a set of categories that can universally be searched on." Even though specification includes 'Using simple categories', 'Grouping categories' and 'Deriving categories' sections, I don't see how it helps to discover previously unknown business without knowing categorization that was used. Am I missing something? Posted to services @ 11:20:59 PM ( comments)
Marcia J. Bates: After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time. "Long-term solutions to the problems of indexing the Web will probably involve multiple overlapping methods of classifying and indexing knowledge, so that people coming from every possible angle can find their way to resources that work best for them. Instead of calling it an "ontology," label the system of description what it really is - a classification, thesaurus, set of concept clusters, or whatever." [boingboing] How about calling it taxonomy instead of ontology? Posted to klogs @ 11:01:49 PM ( comments)
Steve Pepper: The TAO of Topic Maps. "The generality and expressive power of the topic map model bring with it other advantages that go far beyond those traditionally associated with indexes. The close similarity to semantic nets gives an idea of how topic maps, even without any occurrences connecting them to an information pool, can become valuable resources in their own right. This in turn opens up new business opportunities for creating and selling “portable topic maps” that can be overlaid on multiple information pools. For traditional commercial publishers, producing well-crafted topic maps could be a new way of leveraging their existing knowledge and experience and combating the threat to their existence posed by the vast amounts of information now available for free." [Curiouser and curiouser!] Posted to klogs, xml @ 10:47:15 PM ( comments)
Word 11, XML, and the universal canvas. "The endgame is what Microsoft has called the universal canvas. In the long run, that means migrating software to a common storage model. That won't happen any time soon, but there's a big near-term opportunity to leverage XML as an exchange format much more aggressively. I'd like to see that happen across the suite of Microsoft's clients by the time Office 11 ships. I'm not holding my breath, though." [Jon's Radio] Me neither. Although I'd like it to happen across many different apps and clients. Posted to xml @ 4:27:32 PM ( comments)
Richard Florida
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
From his recent interview: Be Creative Or Die. "My theory uses the three T's: technology, talent and tolerance. You need to have a strong technology base, such as a research university and investment in technology. That alone is a necessary but not in itself sufficient condition. Second, you need to be a place that attracts and retains talent, that has the lifestyle options, the excitement, the energy, the stimulation, that talented, creative people need. And thirdly, you need to be tolerant of diversity so you can attract all sorts of people -- foreign-born people, immigrants, woman as well as men, gays as well as straights, people who look different and have different appearances." [Gurteen Knowledge-Log] Posted to books, klogs @ 3:57:01 PM ( comments)
Updated 8/22/2002; 5:24:44 PM
