[RDF] Re: WRAF, HDC : similar projects

[Jonas Liljegren]

"Bernard Vatant" <bernard@universimmedia.com> writes:

> At present time, I'm working in the frame of Topic Maps XTM universe. In
> the air is some convergence between XTM and RDF, and I think we badly need
> such convergences, both on syntactic and semantic grounds.

HDC is primarly an isolated thing.  RDF is the internal data format.
Wraf neither imports or exports XML documents.

Interoperability is part of the plan.  Thats an important reason for
using RDF.  But it's a later stage.


> My thought line at the moment is the "bottom-up" construction of the
> semantic web. Various projects are emerging everywhere, they have to
> be linked and interoperative, but not merged in a single huge
> unique-thought picture. I suppose you know also
> http://www-db.stanford.edu/SKC/ , the Bootstrap Institute, OIL, etc
> ... going somehow in the same direction. To take the "global brain"
> image, neurones are there, we have to build effective synapses.=20

Yes. I vision the internet as one large thinking entity with data and
rules.  A question can be answerd by forwarding parts of it to many
specialized services and gathering the responses.  some of them as
plain data and other produced by using inference rules.  None of the
services will be complete or able to give correct answers by
themself.  The intelligence will come from the quantity. The web could
primarly consist of exceptions rather than rules.


> Looking forward for any form of link to your project.

The HDC can be integrated with library databases, Open Directory
Project and other databases on the web that can give more data about
certain types of topics. And the internal data can be exported wth
appropriate schemas.

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