Semantic Rubbish
- Article 12 of 26
- M-iD, January 2005
The so-called 'semantic web' is a flawed initiative that will never catch on, despite certain techies' enthusiasm, believes Rob Buckley
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Most important of all, ECM systems can handle hundreds of different types of documents, including Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat files, whereas OWL and RDF are for HTML, XHTML and XML files only.
As a result, there is little incentive for anyone to lobby ECM vendors to support a metadata standard that only works with a small class of document types, and little incentive for ECM vendors to change their own systems to support a standard with a limited feature set in comparison to what they are already delivering.
And there is certainly no incentive for the likes of software giants Adobe and Microsoft to change their document formats when ECM systems can already read and write the existing metadata perfectly well.
Despite the hype, the semantic web is a superfluous technology, unnecessary for the web and already superseded on the intranet.
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