Thursday, February 17, 2005
ZapThink :: Research - Data Integration Can be a Hoot with OWL
ZapThink :: Research - Data Integration Can be a Hoot with OWL
"The movement to standards-based computing that XML and Web Services herald is eerily analogous to the work done in the first half of the twentieth century to establish international long distance telephone standards. Finally, you could dial direct to China! The problem was, well, if you didn’t speak Chinese, you still couldn’t have a conversation. The very same situation is now plaguing the area of IT integration today. One of the great advantages of XML, Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture is the increased emphasis on the loose coupling of systems, the adoption of interoperable data formats, and the general lowering of the barrier for accessing information in all its disparate types and locations. However, as we discussed earlier in our Loosely Coupling the Meaning of Data ZapFlash, what good is accessing all these data sources when the applications can’t understand or interpret the information they can access?"
"The movement to standards-based computing that XML and Web Services herald is eerily analogous to the work done in the first half of the twentieth century to establish international long distance telephone standards. Finally, you could dial direct to China! The problem was, well, if you didn’t speak Chinese, you still couldn’t have a conversation. The very same situation is now plaguing the area of IT integration today. One of the great advantages of XML, Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture is the increased emphasis on the loose coupling of systems, the adoption of interoperable data formats, and the general lowering of the barrier for accessing information in all its disparate types and locations. However, as we discussed earlier in our Loosely Coupling the Meaning of Data ZapFlash, what good is accessing all these data sources when the applications can’t understand or interpret the information they can access?"
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