The Dark Side of the Semantic Web, By James Hendler, in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2007, Vol 22, No 1, 2-3 ; and his presentation.
The short analysis on the relationship of Semantic Web and AI research fields in observable Web 2.0 is given. The "dark side" of the Semantic Web is treated from the point of AI community that they are lack of experiences on social aspects of the Web (e.g. the use of social tagging).
Hendler emphasizes that the theme of AI – “that which looks easy in the small is often much harder in the large” . On the other hand, the catch phrase in Semantic Web – “a little semantics goes a long way” is on revealing the main trend: RDF/OWL in practice.
Two benefits for building RDF triple stores include:
In particular, Hendler notices that the main design principle for RDF is that having unique names for different terms has a great impact on the Web. However, the challenge goes to the question of two URIs whether they are indicating the “same” , the “different”, “different parts of the same thing”, or the others.
The short analysis on the relationship of Semantic Web and AI research fields in observable Web 2.0 is given. The "dark side" of the Semantic Web is treated from the point of AI community that they are lack of experiences on social aspects of the Web (e.g. the use of social tagging).
Hendler emphasizes that the theme of AI – “that which looks easy in the small is often much harder in the large” . On the other hand, the catch phrase in Semantic Web – “a little semantics goes a long way” is on revealing the main trend: RDF/OWL in practice.
Two benefits for building RDF triple stores include:
- RDF enables you to store data in a flexible schema so you can store additional types of information that you might have been unware of when you originally designed the schema.
- RDF helps you to create Web-like relationships between data, which is not easily done in a typical relational database.
In particular, Hendler notices that the main design principle for RDF is that having unique names for different terms has a great impact on the Web. However, the challenge goes to the question of two URIs whether they are indicating the “same” , the “different”, “different parts of the same thing”, or the others.