Deconstructing the Semantic Web, a semiotic concept...
Remember "Getting In Touch With Your Inner Child"?
I am consumed with Tim Berners-Lee's idea of impleming on the
Internet a Semantic Web on top of the "World Wide web".
"The previous principles aim to give some coherence at the ground
level of the Web, by introducing semantics in the links imbedded
in the basic pages. " [1]
It seems that to understand the implications of the deployment
of the Semantic Web, I must also get used to the personal implications.
Beyond "shades of grey".
In implementing the Semantic Web, many different "ontologies", of
lists of definitions will be used.
'The organisation of this "conceptual" or "ontological" or "semantic"
layer is a major stake of the future Web, and there again, there will
be a political choice about it.
Either let experts deal with it and declare "from above" what will
be the "standard ontology", that is for instance the direction of
IEEE Standard Upper Ontology Study Group. [or] apply a bottom-up
strategy, starting from existing ontologies in various fields and
communities of users, and giving them tools to organize and merge.'[1]
"The new W3C standard RDF (Resource Description Framework) describes
a metadata infrastructure which can accommodate classification
elements from different vocabularies i.e. schemas. " [2]
I am trying to get my mind around these ideas, but one problem I have
run into could be stated by a paraphrase of Salvador Dali:
"I am my semantic web!"
Time for electroshock therapy....
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[1]
Topic Maps, Semantic Web, collaborative ontologies
http://www.mondeca.com/site/products/bernard/nohi/enohip6.htm
[2]
Towards the Semantic Web: Metalog
Massimo Marchiori, Janne Saarela
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Metalog/CIKM-050299.html
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