Trip Report WWW2004P3: will the semantic web scale ? |
there were approximately 150-200 attendees including "tbl".
- cathy marshall:
- semantic web is meta data.
- libraries use meta data.
- it is created by trained people.
- on the web, semantic data is created by anybody - no rules applies.
- alon y. halevy:
- structuring data is hard.
- people find it hard to share data.
- people need a clear return on their investment.
- web: unstructure, easy, simple, meant to share
- semantic data (databases): structured, difficult (requires education), not meant to be shared (privacy)
- jürgen angele:
- OWL does not scale, neither conceptually nor technically.
- the semantic web is a great opportunity, but OWL is a step in the wrong direction.