Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Re: Semantic web meta data
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Murray Altheim wrote: (01)
> This is the premise of the W3C's Semantic Web effort. I was fortunate
> enough to sit in on a session at ICCS last year where Terry Winograd
> (to my mind) demolished the idea of such widespread use of metadata. (02)
Do you have a reference to a transcript or summary of this? (03)
> As you might guess, I don't believe in global ontologies. They'd be
> bad for the blood, bad for mental diversity, bad for thinking, just
> bad to the bone. Now that doesn't mean I'm down on ontologies in
> general. I'm all for grass roots, people-created, disagree'in,
> confused and impossible-to-merge ontologies, which, like it or not,
> are what we're going to get *anyway*. Ontologies are by nature local,
> personal, time-, context- and domain-specific. Our vision of the world
> is not static, nor formed from one person's (or one group's) mind. (04)
*back benchers rumble in approval* (05)
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