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• Subject: Re: Interesting nodes are anonymous, was: Re: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:43:36 +0100
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Jonathan Borden wrote:

> This is where ontologies allow you to be *more flexible* in how data is 
> exchanged -- as long as the system has the knowledge to figure it out it 
> will..

I like to qualify that last bit. If we focus overly on the model we 
tend to forget the cost of interchange in the trenches is to a large 
extent driven by syntax. That RDF has a designated XML syntax that 
people dislike has resulted at least 5 other unofficial ones to 
choose from and will probably result in 5 more before the penny 
drops amongst RDFers that this is a bug not a feature.

cheers
Bill

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