A sharp guy reports on a Semantic Web panel (incl. me)- July 25, 2002 "The most cautious of the panelists, Rao seemed determined to deflate the hype bubble at every opportunity, declaring flat-out that he thought any VC would be foolish to invest in any Semantic Web business plans at this stage. Like all the panelists, he does believe it will ultimately be important, but thinks the current level of hype is grossly out of proportion to the reality (or unreality) of the technology infrastructure." Gosh, I didn't realized how determined I was, but I guess...http://www.agwright.com/writing/semantic_web_041602.html Article on Dublin Core and Categorizing the Web from the grassroots- July 9, 2002 Article is a good entry into Dublin Core as much for it's observation about now. There will certainly be ongoing debate about whether other (older) metadata standards are just fine, thank you, but nevertheless I think it's something well worth understanding. I must interject on one point at least: "What we need is for Web pages to categorize themselves, which categorizations could then be computer-read and -collected. It's already possible, but it ain't happening. Dublin Core...http://www.contenu.nu/article.htm?id=1224 |