Jim,
It will be found to be "ready" when it has been done by someone
and it is in common use. Had the world waited for for "technical
maturity" in, for example, aviation, we wouldn't have the fun of
waiting in lines to go through security screening - we'd simply get
on the [theoretically "mature"] train and get where we wanted to go
the day after tomorrow. There really is no orderly process for
technology transfer from research to "best practice" and it is not
clear that there should be one. If someone wants to "approach data
interoperability" in this fashion, its an engineering problem. Go do
it; solve the problems and make it work.
Doug (01)
On Feb 7, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Schoening, James R C-E LCMC CIO/G6 wrote: (02)
> Pat and others,
>
> Would you agree the Semantic Web approach to data interoperability
> shows great promise, but is not ready for large organizations to
> implement as a solution for data sharing across their many domains?
>
> Jim Schoening
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Hayes [mailto:phayes@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:53 PM
> To: Schoening, James R C-E LCMC CIO/G6
> Subject: RE: [cuo-wg] Technical maturity of Semantic Web solution
>
>> Pat,
>> I agree this is not the best model, but for our purposes, I
>> suggest it
>> is good enough.
>> Perhaps you (or someone) could cite some recent demonstrations and
>> whether they were in a laboratory, relevant, or operational
>> environment.
>>
>> I'd also be in favor of doing a version of this model for semantic
>> interoperability.
>>
>> I'm guessing the Semantic Web approach you describe works well in a
>> small scale or a laboratory environment, but that there is no
>> evidence
>> (yet) it could scale up.
>
> I don't think its ever been tried in a
> small-scale setting. All the Sweb ontologies are on the actual Web,
> for which there is no laboratory as such. Of course, there are many
> that nobody else uses, or were built as toy demonstrations, etc..
>
> The best application/POC demo Ive seen of the approach is the FOAF
> project.
>
> Pat
>
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