One thing that's puzzled me about the Semantic Web is how it's supposed to work once one gets beyond well-established product identifiers like ISBNs and into the realm of competing dynamic vocabularies. It seems to me that the closer you get to perfect mapping between vocabulary terms--surely the ultimate goal--the more you undermine the argument for maintaining separate vocabularies in the first place: the work involved in maintaining the mappings between these constantly changing vocabularies would seem to exceed the work involved in maintaining a single shared vocabulary. But maybe I'm missing something.
Ed Jones
Received on Thu Nov 12 2009 - 11:10:22 EST