Is the Semantic Web Hype?
Mark H. Butler,
HP Labs Bristol,
Mar 21, 2005
Let's start here: "There are many cognitive costs associated with adding formalized information to a computer system. Foremost, users must learn a system s formal language," from Shipman and Marshall, Formality Considered Harmful. Scott Leslie writes, "dryly academic but still useful." Now let's get to the current item: "In the Semantic Web, someone has to provide a mapping to allow different vocabularies to interoperate." Worse, these mappings are highly formal and arcane; a recipe for disaster. What do we need? "If we can get people to make more data available, we can do some interesting things just by aggregating data from different sources, without even using some the Semantic Web technologies." But it has to be part of an everyday activity - writing, taking pictures, speaking - and not some specialized 'information management' function. Tough, dry reads, but very rewarding. Both links PDF.
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