January 17, 2004
Semantic smarts
In the article FoafContradictions - FOAF Wiki Dan discusses how Foaf and RDF can handle detecting whether data is correct. Not just XML correct, by correct in meaning.
So this is how advanced RDF and OWL tools should be able to help us check the quality of some aspects of FOAF documents. Even though machines have no knowlege of the world, of people and documents and their relationships, machines can help check our claims against rules describing RDF vocablary. They can detect contradictions.This is the sort of thinking that's convinced me that listening to, and using, what the Semantic web people have been going on about is a VERY smart idea. They're trying to get the data to start speaking for itself. While the naysayers like that jackass Winer keep trying to delude you with FUD, the SemWeb folks keep at it. Bravo guys!
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We don't seek to build artificial intelligence here, just to have machines help us by doing what they do best, so we can concentrate on more interesting things...
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