Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop (and Scripting Challenge) - Call for Papers

[Nigel Hamilton]

>>> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:09 +0000, Earle Martin wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Can we have that in a language I understand please?
>>
>> "Semantic web stuff ..."
>
> Computer-generated summaries of web sites that other computers can understand.
>
>

A member of the audience at the BCS Roger Needham lecture[1], on the 
Semantic Web put a major fly in the ointment when he asked, "but isn't 
semantics about "meaning"? And don't human's decide what something means?"

At some level a human decides what a web page is about and we saw in the 
case of <META> tags human nature at work.

When pressed about this the speaker acted like it was out of scope? But I 
personally think it goes to the heart of the problem.[2]

NIge

[1] http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.2689
[2] http://blog.trexy.com/2005/12/treking-to-roger-needham-lecture-royal.html