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Re: Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop (and Scripting Challenge) - Call for Papers
user name
 2007-01-21 17:46:24 
On 19/01/07 17:03 tilemonia.org wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:09 +0000, Earle Martin
wrote:
> [...]
>> Can we have that in a language I understand
please?
> 
> "Semantic web stuff ..."

Computer-generated summaries of web sites that other
computers can understand.
Re: Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop (and Scripting Challenge) - Call for Papers
user name
 2007-01-21 23:24:23 

  


  

    >>> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:09 +0000, Earle Martin wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Can we have that in a language I understand please?
>>
>> "Semantic web stuff ..."
>
> Computer-generated summaries of web sites that other computers can understand.
>
>

A member of the audience at the BCS Roger Needham lecture[1], on the 
Semantic Web put a major fly in the ointment when he asked, "but isn't 
semantics about "meaning"? And don't human's decide what something means?"


At some level a human decides what a web page is about and we saw in the 
case of  tags human nature at work.

When pressed about this the speaker acted like it was out of scope? But I 
personally think it goes to the heart of the problem.[2]

NIge

[1] http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.2689
[2] http://blog.trexy.com/2005/12/treking-to-roger-needham-lecture-royal.html



  

  
  
   
     
    






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