RE: FAST and GRIS

Karl,
Fully agree with your points. But the quality of a dish
depends of the ingredients you put in :-)

>Stuff like LCSH is, to my mind, a form of addressing. Wholesale
>reform will be bloody difficult IMHO.
>So ideally if we would have the shareable vocabulary which
>we would be able to identify using URI that would

The shortcut would be to go straight to the list of terms
(vocabulary) pin URI to several millions of them and jump
into semantic web :-). But natural
language needs to be seriously formalized in order to
support this (even if we assume that English is the only language
that is worth having in the world). LCSH is notorious for its
lack of formality on both semantic and syntax level, and FAST is
now further removing LCSH's thin layer of formality.

To promote semantic interoperability we need to agree that if
I use e.g. term 'water' and you use term 'water' we think about the same
concept (even if we use the same URI from some LCSH/FAST namespace).

But how are we going to choose the term for indexing if terms
are not represented with context/semantic e.g. if they don't belong
to some kind of knowledge structure and have some kind of
semantic relationships established???
FAST does not promise any knowledge structure/semantic, the only
representation
it offers is alphabetical list of terms which are not semantically related
in any way. Using only system such as FAST or LCSH
you can never gather or represent terms that are available for
indexing/searching
in one field or subject - and among which you usually need to discriminate
when indexing.

Aida










Agreement on
And changing infrastucture is hellishly difficult. Not just from a
technical perspective, but also from a political and cultural
perspective. The biggest obstacle to overcoming the inadequacies of
these standards is their pervasiveness coupled with the low-level
role they play in library systems.

It's like TBL said about the Web when asked which was the most
important technology: HTML, HTTP, or URLs (URIs, actually). TBL, to
the reporters great shock, said URIs. No hesitation.

When asked Why? he said that document formats come and go, that
transport protocols change all the time, but infrastructure is
forever, and URIs are an addressing mechanism and addressing is
the deepest level of infrastructure on the Web. Hence URIs are here
to stay for a looooong time.


--karl

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