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> [...] but we must extract the good and remove ideological barriers to participation. Could you point to some resources that explain the tradeoff between the

• lou1306 6y ago
  Not the commenter, but I hope to add something to the discussion. Generally, expanding on the current state of the art is paramount in academia. In this case, I guess that defaulting on closed-world and unique names is frowned upon because academic people "know" that SemWeb concepts would be "easy" to implement under such conditions (for some interpretation of "know" and "easy"). A university lab would be reluctant to invest on such a project, because it would likely result in less publications than, say, a bleeding-edge POC. Of course, practical solutions based on well-understood assumptions are exactly what a commercial operation needs, so it's no wonder that TerminusDB chose that path. They might not publish a ton of papers, but they have something that works and could be used in production.
  • wuschel 6y ago
    Very interesting. Thanks!