Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?
Internet Computing (02/08) Vol. 12, No. 1, P. 75; Bussler, Christoph Author Christoph Bussler sees a disaster in the making for Semantic Web technology (SWT) unless a change of course is implemented. “SWT doesn’t propose a different application architecture,” he writes. “Instead, it proposes languages and technologies that are intended to make the application development process and integration efforts a lot simpler, faster, and more reliable, especially in the areas of data and process mediation to achieve uniform semantic interpretation.” But Bussler notes that the impact of SWT requires a certain degree of integration with current core computing technologies. He points out that the deployment of SWT as a wrapping technology to facilitate semantic interfaces for layers causes the number of data models requiring additional mediation to sharply increase due to problems with heterogeneity. SWT would like to tackle the heterogeneity challenge, but researchers generally attempt to bypass
