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This is a red herring. The shared context of two documents is the schema that they both declare and nothing more. The promise of linked data is that a lot of th
by irickt 15y ago
This is a red herring. The shared context of two documents is the schema that they both declare and nothing more. The promise of linked data is that a lot of the relations will (and does now for example in music) allow discovery of interesting relations.
As for library science, yes, it is a hard problem.
- jerf 15y agoIf declaring a schema meant that the two documents actually shared a schema, rather than just claiming they shared a schema, I wouldn't have had to post my comment, because the problem would have been long since solved and we wouldn't be awaiting the Semantic Web because it would have been here for about 10 years now. Semantics is about more than slathering tags and attributes on things; semantics is about actual, factual agreement. Merely claimed agreement isn't enough when it's generally not true. If professionals in library sciences can't get it right, the closest thing to a discipline devoted to the study of metadata, who can or will?