the simplest thing that can possibly work- May 5, 2005 Quoderat Problem-first design - great POV and quotehttp://www.mcdowall.com/2005/05/simplest-thing-that-can-possibly-work.html Service Descriptions - There does not need to be j...- May 5, 2005 There has been some really good analysis and thinking about service description languages recently by several smart people (Tim Bray:SMEX-D, Norm Walsh:NSDL, Mark Nottingham). Everyone of them makes some excellent suggestions and brings a unique POV. One of the challenges that everyone is assuming is that there needs to be only one service description language. I challenge this assumption and suggest that more than one is actually preferably.The are a few reasons for wishing there should only...http://www.mcdowall.com/2005/05/service-descriptions-there-does-not.html Building knowledge from parts- May 3, 2005 Google has done a great job of decomposing knowledge and making it accessible but is it possible to build knowledge from parts in an automated fashion. The first questions two ask are 1) Is it possible to build useful knowledge for components in an automated way - (Rooter a machine generated would tend to suggest otherwise:-)) 2) why would we want to do this. For me the why is the information overload caused in large part by change. A tool to categorize and filter information intelligently...http://www.mcdowall.com/2005/05/building-knowledge-from-parts.html |