Article:		Should Python and XML Coexist?
Subject:		XML/RDF/OWL vs. MKR
Date:		2005-08-30 04:37:44
From:		Richard H. McCullough
I don't like XML/RDF/OWL from the aspect of human engineering. They are very verbose, which makes them hard to read and write. Furthermore, they are not well suited to expressing the meaning of things in the real world. I like MKR (because I invented it and because) it is more more user-friendly. It's like a compatible combination of English, UNIX shell, Unicon (or Python), and CycL. MKR has built-in constructs for handling context, definitions, methods and ontologies. There is an MKR interface to the Stanford TAP knowledge base (RDF) and the OpenCyc knowledge base (CycL), but the interface is not a fully general translation between MKR/RDF and MKR/CycL. MKE/MKR is open source, with binaries for Windows and Linux. See http://rhm.cdepot.net/

Previous Message

Next Message