Re: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: SOA & Selling

[Keith Harrison-Broninski]

Jan Algermissen wrote: Hi Mark, On Jun 2, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Mark Baker wrote: And while I've personally used RDF in projects with great success, it's not for everything. do you have an example of where RDF was a bad fit and why? Thanks, Jan I do, Jan (you may remember we discussed it personally a while back). Earlier this year I did some consultancy for a UK government agency, to help them reorganize the population and extraction of information belonging to a database of scientific research pertaining to environmental issues.   To do this, knowledge management techniques were required - but RDF was not a good fit.  Though there are various environmental ontologies (the best set I found being from NASA), the agency's needs were for knowledge organized around the "themes" they were interested in and the specific issues their scientists were identifying.  In other words, they wanted to develop a dynamic knowledge model based on the information they gathered, not on a static pre-existing set of schemas. For those interested, I discussed the use of Topic Maps (as opposed to the RDF stack) in such a context in my blog: An alternative approach to Knowledge Management An alternative approach to Knowledge Management (cont’d)   -- All the best Keith http://keith.harrison-broninski.info SPONSORED LINKS Computer software Computer aided design software Computer job Soa Service-oriented architecture YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "service-orientated-architecture" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.