Thursday, July 21, 2005

The Semantic Blog 

webservices.xml.com: The Semantic Blog: "When the mainstream trade press first started writing about XML, one of the key benefits invariably cited was precise search. You don't hear much about that any more. It wasn't, and still isn't, the wrong idea, but XML-savvy search requires an investment in data preparation that virtually nobody was or is willing to make. There are isolated examples, of course. One of my favorites is the ability of Safari (the electronic reference library, not the browser) to search within code fragments. Here, for example, is a query that finds sections of books containing code fragments that illustrate the use of Perl's Net::LDAP module:
http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp?x=1&srchText=%28CODE+NET::ldap%29
We'd love it if what we write ourselves -- in email, on weblogs -- could behave this way. But we'd hate to be saddled with the rigorous data preparation that the Safari production teams slog through. That's the Semantic Web dilemma in a nutshell. Where's the sweet spot? How can we marry spontaneity and structure? Recent trends in blogspace, plus emerging XML-savvy databases suggest a way forward. "

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