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Decker, S., Melnik, S., van Harmelen, F., Fensel, D., Klein, M.,
Broekstra, J., Erdmann, M., & Horrocks, I. (2000). The semantic
web: the roles of XML and RDF. _IEEE Internet Computing, 4_(5),
63-74. Retrieved November 3, 2001 from
http://computer.org/internet/ic2000/w5063abs.htm.
A discussion of the relative merits of xml & rdf for the
representation of ontologies. Having well represented ontologies will
be an important sted toward semantic interoperability on the Semantic
Web. The authors conclude with a preference for RDF because it has
declarative semantics: semantics that can be understood without
reference to a particular computational procedure.
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It's brief, but the authors mention that ontologies can be compared
and overlayed to effectively concatenate two or more domains of
knowledge. This is fascinating and very powerful. If well implemented
this will allow machines on the semantic web to effectively classify
discovered information.
This won't, however, make them smart. The machines will still need
definitions and enumerable classes.
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