Semantic Systems

Re: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.conceptual-graphs/2760

John,

It's a nice name, "Semantic Systems", but we should have learned by now --
from the last ten years of bandying the word "semantic" about on the Web,
if nothing else -- that there will be no progress in the analysis, design,
and integration of our manifold styles of representation until we come to
grips with the full complexity of triadic sign relations.

My own observations over the last ten years have convinced me more than ever
that the obstacles to any such integration are far more social than technical.
The problem of integrating information that comes from a number of different
perspectives, disciplines, or cultures is hardly a new phenomenon.  I think
you will find indications of where some of the hang-ups lie in this paper:

Old version, but open access:

Awbrey, S. & Awbrey, J. (1999),
"Organizations of Learning or Learning Organizations"
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/awbrey/integrat.htm

New version, depends on your local access:

Awbrey, S. & Awbrey, J. (2001),
"Conceptual Barriers to Creating Integrative Universities"
http://org.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/269

Jon Awbrey

John F. Sowa wrote:
 > The subject line of this note is a proposed name for a merger of
 > the current Semantic Web with *all* semantic technologies used for
 > any kind of software development.  That includes the Sem Web *and*
 > semantic approaches to any kind of software and systems development.
 > ...
 > The goal of my proposal is nothing less than a total *integration*
 > of the Semantic Web methodologies with the methodologies that have
 > been used in the traditional software development community.
 >
 > That integration will also support an open-ended flowering of
 > new logic-based methodologies in which the boundaries between
 > relational DBs, object-oriented DBs, and web-based documents
 > vanish and become *irrelevant* for everything except the lowest
 > level of tweaks and optimizations that are performed by automated
 > or at least semi-automated means.
 > ...
 > I strongly endorse a logic-based vision in which the Semantic Web,
 > the Semantic DBs, the Knowledge Bases, and the rule-based systems
 > merge in a seamless *Semantic System* in which the boundaries and
 > distinguishing labels vanish.
 >
 > John

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