ORB Visualization
3/17/2004
2:50:58 PM
Reflection,
Someone noted:
In the
absence of software that can handle more powerful representations well, it is
likely that people will use RDF to the limits of its capabilities until
something better appears.
For some the representation problem becomes simple by seeing that structure and function have to be separated, and structure of data in text represented in a native form. This reasoning follows the function/structure issue seen in the natural sciences.
This can be done using the triples < a , r, b > and thus the set
{ < a, r, b > }
is the essential data structure needed to encode all that can be encoded.
From this follows the development of the notational paper, which borrows on several other's works.
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/Notation/notation.htm
Using this approach, it may be that statistical measurement of information becomes tractable without inference at all.
Ballard's work and Sowa's work suggest this as well.
The notion then seems to change how one thinks about rules and the movement of structure as information placement. Of course one "still" needs rules and procedures, but the notion that a computer should be made to "think" simply goes away.