Hiya,
On 6/28/06, Andrews, Mark J. <MarkAndrews_at_creighton.edu> wrote:
> I respectfully disagree with this comment:
I'm not sure you actually disagree, but hey ... :)
> The answer to to both these comments is to get some technological marketing
> specialists working in libraries.
Not that that in itself isn't a good idea, but I can't for the life of
me understand how a marketing specialist is going to change the fact
that we're under-resourced to take on a multi-billion industry. Please
explain.
> To this I'd add the semantic web
> and RDF, and especially Cyc and Cycorp. Think of Cyc as Wintermute's great,
> great, great, great grandparent.
I guess it's my time to respectfully disagree; I *am* a semWebber /
Topic Mapper / semantic data modeller myself, and we're still trying
to figure out how to do proper identity management. No, we can't even
understand what "identity" mean, little less the fuctionality of it!
Until that happens, all we do is play around with interesting ideas
that won't culiminate in robust usable systems in ... er, quite some
time yet.
> I wouldn't
> be surprised if Cyc or something like it were lurking in the major search
> engines like Google and Yahoo.
Cyc is fine for upper-ontology work, but as soon as you dig down into
the triplets of identity and / or specificality, even Cyc falls apart.
I like Cyc for many reasons, but it's not the white stone. Oh, and it
*is* a business venture these days, so take their bias with a grain of
salt. :)
Alex
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