I understand the contra view – but then again Tim was clear to point out that in his views ontology’s are something best developed from a bottom up approach ?

Personally I “got” RDF/semantic web a while ago while doing my masters degree. While it’s reassuring that it is something being educated about I think it needs to be brought down a few levels if it is to become a well used standard. i.e. it should be taught at degree level or lower where appropriate.

However, it hasn’t been until recently, reading your blog in fact, that I’ve finally been able to see where it could be useful. In fact – “GeoWeb” itself is something that isn’t really considered by the community. I’m sure if I mentioned it to my buddies, they wouldn’t have a clue and wouldn’t see it’s potential value.

So somehow we need to raise the profile of “GeoWeb” and related concepts to those people who use the internet, but don’t necessarily understand it (i.e. the majority of people).

btw, your link to the DNF is broken.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html