• To: "'DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)'" <bob.ducharme@l...>, 'Elliotte Rusty Harold' <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: [ xml-dev] InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:22:51 -0500

Ever try to query a database for which you have no schema? 

Think of hooking up an ad hoc query generator to a distant 
database that changes from time to time, might be in a different 
natural language, and so forth.  Metadata starts to look very 
appealing to the human.  Sometimes you don't want a list of 
URIs back; you want a report.

len

From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) [mailto:bob.ducharme@l...]

"I'd love to see the semantic web movement more concerned with finding and
generating usable metadata and less focused on what to do with that metadata
come the revolution. 

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