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There are deeper issues with semantic web. Look at the EDIFACT. Huge standardization effort, but it was still not possible to automate system to system communi
by kukkeliskuu 4y ago
There are deeper issues with semantic web.
Look at the EDIFACT. Huge standardization effort, but it was still not possible to automate system to system communication, because ultimately you need to rely on some words, and words are flexible. I was working with multiple companies that understood "through-invoicing" in EDIFACT differently, but the differences were so subtle they needed a third party to clarify those differences.
Lately, in various sectors, such as finance, there are commercially available reference data models. These are extremely complex, because they need to cover all the possible alternatives businesses might have, in various countries. Just to gain basic understanding of such a model is a huge effort. To have people to label things properly would probably involve learning a similar system.
- TylerE 4y agoSort of reminds me of the original idea behind REST. IMO automated system-to-system is a dead end... you're always going to need humans in the loop for any useful non-trivial data.