... I've got plenty of stuff on the server for us to play with and I can add things as needed. On the KIF/RDF thread, DanC wins the prize with: ...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jun 1, 2001 6:07 pm
961
I apologize if someone has already sent this to the list, but CYC has published their database in DAML: http://www.cyc.com/cyc-2-1/cyc.daml This is part of...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jun 3, 2001 3:35 pm
962
Aaron, Do you have any evidence that this is part of the new OpenCyc to be released in July 2001 - see [1] ? I think it is not. Rather I think it is just a...
Seth Russell
seth@...
Jun 3, 2001 4:28 pm
963
... Oops, you're right Seth. ... Yes, I believe it is the Upper Ontology, but at least it is in DAML. DAML wasn't around in 1997 (to my knowledge) so this must...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jun 3, 2001 4:49 pm
964
... Yes this is definitely new! Good Find :) ..uhh .. how did you find it ? Seth...
Seth Russell
seth@...
Jun 3, 2001 4:55 pm
965
Re: http://purl.org/swag/rdfnsPractises I made a number of changes to make Sean's examples clearer as well as fixing a large number of his spelling mistakes. I...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jun 3, 2001 10:58 pm
966
Josh: "interfaces to the system will be documented and exposed in a way that allows extension or customization" DanBri: "...probably something that provided...
love26@...
Jun 7, 2001 4:56 pm
967
For your respective amusements:- http://infomesh.net/2001/06/swform/ - The Semantic Web, Taking Form A brief article containing an introduction to the Semantic...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jun 11, 2001 4:06 pm
968
This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by love26@....
Although still hung up on a past that involves "corporate America" as the nexus of...
love26@...
Jun 13, 2001 2:25 pm
969
... Yes, if we fight hard to stop it. Read the article -- the idea is now to let software providers not even give us compiled code, but only access their ...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Jun 13, 2001 3:02 pm
970
... I wish you had been able to be part of the "crusade" in which I met many people who not only share that notion but are capable of doing something about it....
love26@...
Jun 13, 2001 3:36 pm
971
... Ralph invented it (as far as I can remember), Aaron notified me of it, William told me what it means, and I use it at every possible opportunity. This...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jun 13, 2001 3:55 pm
972
... I think it's a myth that this is "usual" because the "top 5 companies" got that way by starting as cabals of a handful of enthusiasts who "obliterated" the...
love26@...
Jun 13, 2001 4:28 pm
973
William Loughborough wrote: I think it's a myth that this is "usual" because the "top 5 companies" got that way by starting as cabals of a handful of...
Charles F. Munat
chas@...
Jun 14, 2001 8:25 pm
974
... Agreed. However they were started in the face of already established "big 5 type" companies. The myth I referred to is that established powerful market...
love26@...
Jun 14, 2001 8:52 pm
975
This request is submitted per section 4.0 II of RFC 2611:- [[[ Registrants should send a copy of the registration template (see section 3.0), duly completed,...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jul 7, 2001 1:53 pm
976
I'm pleased to announce a new proposal for a stripped down RDF-in-XML syntax called "BSWL" or the "Basic Semantic Web Language". The proposal is available on...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jul 16, 2001 2:52 pm
977
With apologies for duplicates, we are pleased to announce Redfoot 0.9.9 http://redfoot.sourceforge.net/ Redfoot is a framework for distributed RDF-based...
James Tauber
jtauber@...
Aug 15, 2001 6:43 am
978
... I don't want to chide someone on the lists for so common a "mistake" but this is a place where we all fail miserably. Just as "Accessibility" is almost...
love26@...
Aug 15, 2001 6:55 am
979
Why do you think I said "sadly"? :-) I agree. Both documentation and *tests* should be part of the design process from the beginning. We were relatively well...
James Tauber
jtauber@...
Aug 15, 2001 7:26 am
980
... Yep, that's Aaron's term. A hierarchy stops becoming a hierarchy and becomes a Web when two nodes can refer to each other, rather than being chained. So...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Aug 28, 2001 1:49 am
981
... Actually that's not completely true. Montonic systems (or is it non-monotonic... I can never remember) may use kindaLike to make tentative inferences. It's...
Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Aug 28, 2001 4:03 am
982
Sean: That might be useful to a human (which is why I used it in the prose), but it's not going to be useful to a machine, which is what the goal of the...
Seth Russell
seth@...
Aug 28, 2001 3:45 pm
983
From the abstract: It is important that on the Semantic Web, people produce data that is clean and interoperable. Some RDF techniques can currently only be...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Aug 29, 2001 1:58 pm
984
Great idea Sean - I think this is a much needed document. I think if people could add examples where appropriate, that might also be useful. cheers, Libby...
Libby Miller
libby.miller@...
Aug 29, 2001 2:24 pm
985
... I was thinking more of when people use kindaLike in strictly logical systems: it's impossible to infer any further information from triples that use...
Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Aug 29, 2001 10:16 pm
986
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@...> ... Well in relational db terms: (a) create a data base containing both sets of records , (b) add a field that...
Seth Russell
seth@...
Sep 1, 2001 6:13 pm
987
From: "West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE" <Matthew.R.West@...> ... For what it's worth (I'm not a voting member) I agree with this too. Except what does...
... And not a moment too soon. If Aaron would quit blowing his time commuting to a "posh" college we might get this show back on track! Of course the rest of...
love26@...
Oct 18, 2001 6:38 pm
989
Just a little background on this posting. SUO is a project of IEEE see url below. For some years they have been trying to achieve some kind of majority vote...
