HypothesisJustRdfOwl

Hypothesis

W3C Semantic Web Activity appears to provide all the tools required to build a rich data exchange system. Why don't we just use them?

Background: Semantic Web Q&A | Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies | Relationship between RDF and UML

Pro: Data handshaking becomes simple

It is easy to combine data from different vocabularies on the fly. Can integrate with other efforts. Don't have to keep coming up with new schema.

Pro: Management of versions becomes less problematic

Pro: Many available tools

Pro: Many other people doing it so have expertise to call on

Pro: Many other people doing it so can integrate with their data

Con: Not as good for validation as XML Schema

Con: Have to have a central ontology that all agree on.

Con: RDF is not GML

This is an interesting point of view on it - http://www.mapbureau.com/gml/

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