Some of you here already know it – many others are still asking it though – “What is the Big Deal with Semantic Technology, we don’t get it.”

Fair Enough. If we had to pick one thing that crystallizes the importance of what we’re doing and link it a problem that just about everyone in IT faces today chances are we could change industry perceptions and make some real progress.

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I’ve read some articles again this week explaining that the promise or
potential of Semantic Integration is still a bit far off from being
able to engender significant impact to the enterprise. Perhaps, it is
worth examining the subject more as a practice approach rather than a
standards or technology dependent facilitation medium.

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I started this column with the message that "the future of the Web is: identifiers, relationships and services." Identifiers are the magic gear that make the others work, and so, having in the previous article introduced the role of identifiers in the Internet, I’ll expand on the theme to discuss how important identifiers are, even in an organizational setting.

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