Re: SUO: RE: Topic Maps
Dear Pat,
>Really? By whom? W3C seems to have committed to RDF
>http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/rdf-ms as the basis for its
>'semantic web' effort (http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/), and Darpa is
>funding DAML+OIL http://dtsn.darpa.mil/iso/programtemp.asp?mode=347
>, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/DAML-OIL/ which is now close to
>an international standard, being compatible both with the
>EEC-mandated OIL http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/ and RDF. Several
>of us are involved with the DAML+OIL initiative, so I think that on
>the whole we are fairly well on, if not ahead, of this curve.
EEC-mandated OIL ? This really amaze me. It is true, on the other
hand, that the EU officials seem to have actually a weakeness for RDF -
without, in my opinion, understand very well the pros and the cons of this
solution - but I have never heard they have "mandated" OIL.
Regards,
Gian Piero ZARRI
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