Andy Oram illuminations are not out of date!
- I don’t have the patience to spend two years defining a schema for everything I do! Why should I care about laying out N-ary trees or whether a Form Factor element is a child of the Product Constraints element or the Customer Requirements element?
“You ask that before I get information, I formulate a request. Do you know what you’re talking about? There may be 20 data stores providing results. And they may all use different schemas. Are you scared yet?” She raised herself to a towering height and shook her mane. “Vendor consortia haven’t even touched the things I care about; instead they’re exhausting themselves chasing and trying to domesticate that elusive wild beast–a standardized data format.
Structure and Service: Illuminations from a Trip to the Forest
The potential for this new kind of Semantic Web calls for active exploration, not idle speculation. I do not know at this point what the successful technology is; I do not know who will design and promote it. But this much I know: I’d rather spend time filing my email and organizing my bookmarks than going back over 200 of my old articles and putting angle brackets around every keyword.
The Semantic Web: It’s Whom You Know
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