Re: RE: [tmql-wg] overview query languages

* Steve Pepper <[email protected]> [2004-04-23 11:24+0200]
> [1] Re. Seamless Knowledge: As far as I'm concerned, this is in
> no way different from what has been called "Global Knowledge
> Federation", except that it sounds a bit less lofty, relates more
> directly to problems that people really face today, and is
> therefore easier to sell :-)
> 
> I also say that it's "kinda like the Semantic Web, only not
> quite..."

Heh :) I'm not 100% sure about the 'seamless' metaphor. All these
technologies are about stitching together fragments of scattered
information into a (necessarily patchwork) composite. It seems quite
natural on such a metaphor to expect to see the seams that join the
parts.... (though I'd hope they're not frankenstein ugly!).

--danbri