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> "dispense with the open world interpretation“

That can mean anything from "we have some conventional (e.g. plain old RDBMS) CWA systems but describe their schemas in an OWA DL to ease integration across independent systems" (in particular this means no CWA implications outside those built into the conventional systems with or without a semweb layer on top) to "we do a big bucket of RDF and run it all through a set of rules formulated in OWL syntax but applied in an entirely different way" (CWA everywhere). The former would be semweb as intended, or at least a subset thereof, but the latter could easily end up somewhere between simple brand abuse and almost comical cargo culting.

Well, at least that's how I feel as someone who never had to face the realities of the vast unmapped territories between plain old database applications and fascinating yet entirely impractical academic mind games of DL (old school symbolic AI ivory tower that suddenly happened to find itself in the center of the hottest w3c spec right before w3c specs kind of stopped being a thing, with WHATWG usurping html and Crockford almost accidentally killing XML)

(also, when has "assumption" turned into "interpretation"? Guess I missed a lot)



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