On 14 Jun 2011, at 09:45, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > I think special purpose reasoners will play a much bigger role in the > near future than general purpose reasoners because they perform better with > big and messy data.
Yes. It's certainly true in the case of the web -- you cannot apply off-the-shelf standard OWL reasoners on web data, because of its messiness. This is quite well-documented in the literature. > And publishers will start to differenciate between dogs and pictures of dogs > as > soon as it provides them added value. Until that day, we will have to live > with the situation and try to nudge people in the right direction (which > includes httprange-14). But mass adoption means messy data in any case. That's spot-on. Best, Richard