In message <4.2.2.20010530162156.00b9cde0@thinkalong.com>, Jack Park writes:
>Interesting post, Lee. Why do you think you need anyone's permission to
>offer up a conjecture?
It wasn't my conjecture that was the potential problem, but the fact
that it could be interpreted as devaluing your claim of the importance
of "above the information". My point was really about being able to
reuse data in a potentially arbitrary set of contexts. I don't really
see any of the structure as being "above the information".
Now, I do think this needs some clarifying, since I've been talking
about "content" vs. "knowledge" for some time now. The distinction
between these two in my mind is one of interpretation. The content
layer is in a certain sense "uninterpreted", it is a container for raw
objects and the relationships between them. Tags and labelled are
simply stored and manipulated. The knowledge layer is the layer of
richer "views", in which the raw data is placed in explicit,
"meaning"-laden contexts. This is the layer at which XTM, RDF/S and
DAML come into play.
In terms of the node soup, is this explanation clam chowder (opaque)
or consomme (clear)?
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