Saturday, January 28, 2012

Semantic web is graph pattern patching

Really, I tire of reading the esoterics talk about meaning and uncertainty. Humans terms. The machines match patterns in graphs, that is all they can do and that is all they have been doing to 50 years. What is changing is that the computer industry has suddenly realizing this elementary fact.

What about RDF and the rest of the W3C hierarchy? Keep them, RDF just specifies data type, but it is not the semantic web, RDF has no grammar for pattern matching.
They key break through will happen when some software geek proposes a standard for storing Bson nested stores in SQL. At that point, the grammar of finding matches between Bson streams is, well, a few additional hundred lines of code actually.

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