• To: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
• Subject: Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabulariesto Implement Large (Complex) Systems
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:52:31 +0000
• Cc: algermissen@a..., Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@g...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <cc159a4a041217073145d53492@m...>
• References: <200412161525.iBGFPZH12832@s...> <41C1B8AE.7060207@a...> <1f2ed5cd04121610502bd03781@m...> <cc159a4a04121619557c1fcc76@m...> <1f2ed5cd04121702111ea338c4@m...> <cc159a4a0412170657548da865@m...> <41C2F991.116B11E0@t...> <cc159a4a041217073145d53492@m...>
• User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103)

Peter Hunsberger wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:21:53 +0100, Jan Algermissen
> <jalgermissen@t...> wrote:
> 
>>Peter Hunsberger wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I don't know if it's the semantics or what, but for some reason RDF
>>>just comes across as too geeky for the business side of the house.
>>>Maybe it's just that they've been hearing OO for 10 years and believe
>>>that "Objects" are supposed to be something good so they instantly
>>>adopt them. (Resource? What's a resource?).
>>
>>...an object...with a uniform interface[1].
>>
>>HTH,
> 
> Umm, sorry, no: I guess you missed the comment about "RDF appearing to
> be too geeky"?  (Uniform interface? What's a uniform interface? And it
> only get's worse from there...)

I haven't found explaining Resources to be a problem in practice. If 
anything, explaining Objects is harder.

cheers
Bill

• References:
  • RE: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabulariesto Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Frank Manola <fmanola@a...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@g...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@g...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@t...>
  • Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
    • From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>

• Prev by Date: [ANN] Reminder: Call for Participation, XTech 2005, 24-27 May,Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Next by Date: Re: Stopping and resuming a sax parser?
• Previous by thread: Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
• Next by thread: Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread