"Machine Reasoning" - hence my interest in Cyc. "Machine reasoning" has
not gone away, its just gone quiet. I wonder how much DARPA money is
behind Cyc?
M. Andrews
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Corey A Harper
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I think that the 10 years of experience with RDF is a bit of a
red-herring here. The RDF docs have changed a lot in the intervening
time, and the tools for working effectively with RDF data are a lot
younger. The first draft of the Concepts and Abstract Syntax doc is
from 2002. The first RDF Semantics doc: 2001. These docs, and their
later iterations, are where a lot of the potential lies.
More significantly, SPARQL - the RDF Query specification, was first
issued less than 3 years ago. The applications Bernhard is looking for
needed SPARQL to even start developing. SPARQL's absence was the
missing layer in much of the SW stuff.
Additionally, the links Ross pointed to earlier represent somewhat of a
change in the SW community itself - from Machine Reasoning to Linking
Data. The latter is what's really relevant to our community.
Finally, in terms of scalability, this caught my eye a few weeks ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/04/semantic_web_breakthrough/
Answering "search queries with more than seven billion RDF statements in
mere fractions of a second", this work seems to demonstrate that the
technology has finally matured to the point that proof-of-concepts and
demonstrated utility are ready to be developed.
-Corey
Received on Wed May 23 2007 - 07:18:10 EDT