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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > I've been thinking more about the semantic web myself. I still suspect > it's mostly hype, but I'm beginning to see some potential uses. Well, I'm with Clay Shirky that the semantic web is still a bit far away for the general public, but there are definitively interesting use cases within organizations. Think of support for semi-automated mapping of data fields from several interface standards onto DB fields. Of course you still need to put a lot of manual labour into refining the ontologies and possibly custom enhancements for the inference engine, but even a 70% correct generated mapping or impact analysis saves already a lot of work. Heck, it's already somewhat useful for documenting the equivalences and differences of specialized terms used in different departments of the organization. J.Pietschmann
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