Wilkinson's "The Declaration of Semantic Web Independence"

Mark Wilkison has posted a :

Declaration of Semantic Web Independence

For more details see: ttp://biordf.org/wilkinsonlab/index.php/all/2007/05/17/semantic_declaration_of_independence

1. Ontologies are a path to a goal, not the goal itself.
   
   • Ontologies are World Views
   • World Views are Hypotheses
   • Hypotheses are Queries
   • Queries are Disposable
   • Therefore Ontologies are (should be) Disposable!


2. Reasoning is your problem, not mine!


3. LSIDs provide a great way of solving the ontology-segmentation problem


4. Ontological predicates can be thought of as, and mapped to, Web Service