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Semantic web as future reality

In reply to Vidar:

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree with you that the code is complex too. I think the main thing is that if the code/markup is simple, then it doesn’t matter as much if the specification is hard to read and the other way around… The problem with things like RDF and OWL for instance is that both are hard.

I’m hoping to spend some time trying to understand the technologies and writing some tools, but I know my time is way too limited to make a major impact. I’ve gotten part way through an N3 parser, though, and that’s helping me understand a lot of the technologies.

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Yeah, I have a formation as a computer scientist and math formulas are essential to get rid of ambiguities (it’s, for example, one of the goals of formal specification of softwares).

But the current problem is that the technology we are discussing about is intended to be used by anybody, computer scientists or not. It’s why we will need to write both scientific and vulgarized articles. The first to erase ambiguities and to have formal foundations; the second to be understood and implemented in softwares of any kind.