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Was involved with a project once upon a time that spent six months developing ontologies for event ticketing, not me thank god, but another team of about eight.
by sgt101 5y ago
Was involved with a project once upon a time that spent six months developing ontologies for event ticketing, not me thank god, but another team of about eight.
The delivered ontology got used twice or maybe three times, and it didn't cover all the corner cases we knew about.
- smitty1e 5y agoHeard a bloke introduce himself at the onboarding as a "Sematic Ontologist". His sobriety was only exceeded by his earnestness. I prayed he'd not become attached to my project, as he looked like the sort who could love a problem for weeks without ever reaching a conclusion.
- jdixnneij 5y agoSounds like the eternal student, they just don't work in business, although seemingly I keep getting lumped with the useless persist question askers, sometimes I feel like I discussing shit with David Attenborough, just get on with job ends rant
- jdixnneij 5y agoTruth hurts. Good luck on your third phd
- Vinnl 5y agoOh wow, having interacted with the SemWeb community quite a lot in the past couple of years, > the sort who could love a problem for weeks without ever reaching a conclusion. is such an accurate description of a number of people part of it. Possibly the root cause of all the problems that led to it never taking off at the scale they'd envisioned.
- tasogare 5y agoThe semantic web is a non-solution in eternal search of non-problems.