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title: On Semantic Web Extensions Via WSDL?
date: 2005-11-11T22:06:51Z
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[Say it isn’t so](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=730&entry=99225). Semantic or Cementic? You treating to create ontology or oniontology? If the RDF crew couldn’t nail it, why would the WS-* folks succeed?



Minimum progress to declare victory folks… why not think [microformats](http://www.microformats.org/blog/2005/09/23/microformats-recycle/). 

- solve a specific problem
- start as simple as possible
- design for humans first, machines second
- reuse building blocks from widely adopted standards
- modularity / embeddability
- enable and encourage decentralized and distributed development, content, services



Oh well, I guess two out of six ain’t bad.