[tlug] Effect of AI and data processing rift on the Semantic Web

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

This[1] is an interesting post about the historical division between the 
data processing and AI camps, and discusses how it has negatively 
effected the development of the semantic web.

Edward

Terms and references

RIF - Rule Interchange Format[2]
Datalog - query and rule language for deductive databases[3]
SPARQL - *SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language*[4]
OWL - Web Ontology Language[5]
protocol buffers -> thrift[6] - binary service development

1. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-08/msg00193.html
2. http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_Working_Group
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
4. definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
   specification http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
6. Google protocol buffers has largely been superseded by thrift
   http://stuartsierra.com/2008/07/10/thrift-vs-protocol-buffers
   http://incubator.apache.org/thrift