On Folly
Edd Dumbill,
XML.Com,
Dec 13, 2004
Edd Dumbill responds to criticisms of the Semantic Web. the argument, in a sentence: "Both Shirky and Udell seem to be pretty much convinced the Semantic Web requires, from the outset, globally agreed ontologies. It seems more that they've set up a straw man. I had always envisaged that in the same way user interface and other conventions have emerged from the messy web, so would ontological conventions. Messy, but good enough." I will say, if you are building ontologies now, prior to use, you are probably making an error. Same thing if you're creating canonical vocabularies. Categorization is good (reason is impossible without it) but categorization belongs to the language, not the librarians.
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