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I read this like "DoD tried to do quite a complicated semantic layer over tables project but failed because the RDF cluster of technologies is horrible. It woul

by shubb 4y ago

I read this like "DoD tried to do quite a complicated semantic layer over tables project but failed because the RDF cluster of technologies is horrible. It would have been easier to code from scratch with SQL and python". I think you are pretty familiar with those technologies. Do you think they have any value?

PaulHoule 4y ago
I see the problem of the DoD being asked where the money goes as an intractable problem, not least because they have more than one reason that they don't want to tell you. That is, it will defeat any technology that you bring to the table. My own feelings about RDF are mixed. On one hand I've accomplished quite a few things with it, for instance, developing a technique for bringing multiple schema systems (say EMOF, XML Schema, and FIX Orchestra) into a single framework but it has been like https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Binb%C5%8Dgami https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Binb%C5%8Dgami for me in that I have put huge amounts of time and money into it with very little return, not because of technical problems per se but because of problems marketing it. There's a certain kind of stupidity inside the community that keeps it from making tools that are truly effective but there is even more stupidity outside the community that makes it seem it won't ever be understood. The semantic web seems to be cursed that it will never develop a brand like GraphQL, Docker, mongodb, or "FAANG" that works like a Jedi mind trick to bring people into its domains. For instance I saw GraphQL as beneath contempt for many years because there was no specification, it was just "Facebook will return any answers that further their business interests if and when they want to" and somehow people are seduced by that the same way that they are seduced by Donald Trump or will cut out their left eyeball because Matt Butts said that is how to raise your PageRank by 0.1% next Thursday.
- shubb 4y ago
  Sorry for the slow response and thank you for the long one

by shubb 4y ago

PaulHoule 4y ago

I see the problem of the DoD being asked where the money goes as an intractable problem, not least because they have more than one reason that they don't want to tell you. That is, it will defeat any technology that you bring to the table. My own feelings about RDF are mixed. On one hand I've accomplished quite a few things with it, for instance, developing a technique for bringing multiple schema systems (say EMOF, XML Schema, and FIX Orchestra) into a single framework but it has been like https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Binb%C5%8Dgami https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Binb%C5%8Dgami for me in that I have put huge amounts of time and money into it with very little return, not because of technical problems per se but because of problems marketing it. There's a certain kind of stupidity inside the community that keeps it from making tools that are truly effective but there is even more stupidity outside the community that makes it seem it won't ever be understood. The semantic web seems to be cursed that it will never develop a brand like GraphQL, Docker, mongodb, or "FAANG" that works like a Jedi mind trick to bring people into its domains. For instance I saw GraphQL as beneath contempt for many years because there was no specification, it was just "Facebook will return any answers that further their business interests if and when they want to" and somehow people are seduced by that the same way that they are seduced by Donald Trump or will cut out their left eyeball because Matt Butts said that is how to raise your PageRank by 0.1% next Thursday.

shubb 4y ago
Sorry for the slow response and thank you for the long one