From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of James Weinheimer Sent: March 16, 2012 5:41 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA/FRBR and the Business Case; Was:RDA as the collaboratively created way forward[?]
... >I am not rejecting FISO. What I am saying is that FISO is becoming like stone >tools when there are all kinds of >power tools available. But FISO aren't tools at all-- they're basic tasks. Like steering a car. (There are automated cars out there-- but then it's the machine doing the steering. The task remains.) > The world is moving on and leaving FISO behind. For instance, "find" is > turning into "search" which means >creating an "intelligent agent" for our > information needs. That is what Tim Berners-Lee wants and is one of the > >primary goals of the Semantic Web, and supposedly, one of the main reasons > for RDA and FRBR in the first place. No, that's flat out wrong-- the Semantic Web is about bringing back "find" because "search" is not enough. Quote from Tim Berners-Lee himself: "Does this mean that they [search engines] will start to absorb the whole RDF data model? If they do, then they will be able to start pulling all of the linked data cloud in. Will they know what to do with it? Because when it's data in a very organized form, I think some people have been misunderstanding the Semantic Web as being something that tries to make a better search engine - i.e. when you type something into a little box. But of course the great thing about the Semantic Web is that you can query it, you can ask a complicated query of the Semantic Web, like a SQL query (we call it a SPARQL query), and that's such a different thing to be able to do. It really doesn't compare to a search engine." http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_interview_with_tim_berners-lee_part_2.php Querying that kind of structure requires an entity-relationship model. That's why RDA was written to support the entity-relationship framework. Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library
