http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1643Conflation is the tech industry's equivalent of macroeconomic inflation. Whenever it rears it head, we lose value courtesy of diminishing productivity. Looking retrospectively at any technology failure -- enterprises or industry at large -- you will eventually discover -- at the core -- messy conflation of at least one of the following: Data Model (Semantics) Data Object (Entity) Names (Identifiers) Data Representation Syntax (Markup) Data Access Protocol Data Presentation Syntax (Markup) Data Presentation Media. The Internet &amp; World Wide Web (InterWeb) are massive successes because their respective architectural cores embody the critical separation outlined above. The Web of Linked Data is going to become a global reality, and massive success, because it leverages inherently sound architecture -- bar conflationary distractions of RDF. :-)Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:02:32 GMTVirtuoso Universal Server 08.03.3334Kingsley Uyi Idehenhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/weblog/public/images/vbloglogo.gifhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1643I have seen the future and it's full of Linked Data! :-)8831 http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1643#4715http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1643#4715zazi@elbklang.netThu, 04 Nov 2010 14:30:58 GMT<p><br /> Why not talking about knowledge representation models? ;)</p> http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1643#4714http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1643#4714zazi@elbklang.netThu, 04 Nov 2010 14:29:19 GMT<p><br /> Why not talking about knowledge representation models? ;)</p>