[MOBY-l] BioXSD... 8 years later...

[Phillip Lord]

Dmitry Repchevsky <dmitry.repchevski at bsc.es> writes:
>>
>> It seems to me that ANY project that requires people to agree on anything  -
>> at least, agreement at this level -  is unlikely to succeed, unless you
>> have a very big stick, or an even bigger carrot!
> I think we are doomed to support this one because it comes from EBI... :-\

I wouldn't be so sure of that. It depends how willing the developers are
to spend the 5 years pushing it. 


>
>> We cannot get interoperability without semantics.
> Wrong... we can not do reasoning without semantics...

Unless there is an agreed upon semantics, then no interoperability.

Now, whether you need the semantics expressed in a common language like
OWL, or whether you need a common syntax and just agree on the semantics
in another way is a different issue. For myself, I see OWL and RDF as
another tool to be used; not a magic bullet but another spanner to be
used when it fits. 

Phil