Article:		The True Meaning of Service
Subject:		is there really so much confusion?
Date:		2002-07-18 09:07:16
From:		dude mc dude
I have never thought in terms of services vs. semantic web - they are so obvioulsy different, how could anyone confuse them? It was always apparent that web services would allow semantic operations on their meta data. But then again, how much meta data is there to an online car reservation? Are there really so many people out there debating web services vs. semantic web?

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• is there really so much confusion?
  2002-07-21 20:18:55 Kendall Clark [Reply]
  
  --I have never thought in terms of services vs. semantic web - they are so obvioulsy different, how could anyone confuse them?--

  
  Who confused them? Or, rather, who said that anyone confused them? If I said that in my piece, then I misspoke.

  
  --It was always apparent that web services would allow semantic operations on their meta data. But then again, how much meta data is there to an online car reservation?--

  
  A lot of it, I suspect, but that's not a very interesting example, in my view.

  
  --Are there really so many people out there debating web services vs. semantic web?--

  
  Well, sure, if you read xml-dev, this debate is often an overtone of other, more specific ones. Plus, it's not so much that in specific forums people are lined up debating this exact question but that these *are* the two "big visions" for the future of the Web, and they are often presented as mutually exclusive or competitive, and, yes, lots of XML people think of them as such.

  
  I could tell some tales out of school about the corporate sponsors of the W3C *not* funding "Semantic Web" stuff precisely because it gets in the way of "Web Services", but that would just be too tacky! :>

  
  Kendall