• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:53:50 -0400
• Cc: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <p06010202bcef46a8e8f7@[192.168.254.88]>
• References: <0E36FD96D96FCA4AA8E8F2D199320E520212EC67@R...> <p06010202bcef46a8e8f7@[192.168.254.88]>
• User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

Perhaps an analogy would explain the value-add.

I've always considered HTTP and URIs as basically a means for making
the Internet look like a relational database, with XML as a database
export format, and RDF as a standardized schema where all tables (with
URIs for names) have three columns labeled "subject", "predicate", and
"object".

So the value add of RDF/XML over vanilla XML is the same as the value
add of having a standardized database schema over the alternative of
not having one.

Mark.
-- 
Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic webmega-permathread thing)
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>

• References:
  • RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
    • From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
  • RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic webmega-permathread thing)
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• Next by Date: Announce: Public XSLT/XSL-FO training in Phoenix in August [XML-Dev]
• Previous by thread: RE: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic webmega-permathread thing)
• Next by thread: Re: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic webmega-permathread thing)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread