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From rssfeeds@jmason.org Tue Sep 24 10:48:03 2002
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From: diveintomark <rssfeeds@example.com>
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Subject: The Semantic Web makes me sick
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:00:03 -0000
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/23.html#the_semantic_web_makes_me_sick
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Date: 2002-09-23T09:27:30-05:00
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No, really. My sinus infection, which appeared to be gone, flared up again over
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the weekend in the nastiest way, and I am now coughing up dark mucus and doing
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other things that probably don't bear repeating in a public forum. I have the
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10:15 doctor's appointment that I should have made last round, had I not
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convinced myself that “it's not that bad” and trudged through it
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all without prescription drugs. I'm not making the same mistake this time. I'll
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be back this afternoon.
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My email problems of yesterday have been resolved. You can once again reach me
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at my normal address, f8dy@diveintomark.org.
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Kevin Burton[1] emailed me with another way to link to a FOAF file from my RSS
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feed. It looks easier than previous suggestions, and it has the advantage of
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being able to use it from an RSS 1.0 or 2.0 feed, but I worry about all these
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variations. Just as in real life, where people can use different words that
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mean essentially the same thing, in the Semantic Web programs can use different
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vocabularies to express the same statements. That's great for producers, not so
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great for consumers who have to make sense of it all.
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For each domain (RSS feeds, FOAF files, whatever), somebody (or some group)
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needs to come along and document best practices. We need better _goal-oriented_
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documentation. We have a lot of reference documentation, task-oriented
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documentation, but very little that documents that larger picture and answers
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questions written in English. “How do I include personal information in
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my RSS feed?” is a goal-oriented question. “Create a FOAF file
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using this tool and then insert this line at this location in your RSS
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feed” (with as many examples as necessary) is a goal-oriented answer.
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Anything less is like trying to master a foreign language by reading a
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dictionary.
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[1] http://www.peerfear.org/
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