Stephen Downes

The world is beginning to catch up to the structure of metadata I described long ago in Resource Profiles - this paper (original in French; the main link points to a translation) is the closest I've seen to it thus far. As I look at the diagram, I see the suggestion that the output of such a system is a knowledge representation, which would then be queried - I have my doubts about that. Watson notwithstanding, I don't think that we'll ultimately build a world-wide semantic engine - knowledge is too complex for that. If these metadata form the inputs for anything, it will be a worldwide data graph. Via Blogue Du GTA.