RDF is a Knowledge Representation System

Why do we need another?

• many KR systems have been explored
• ontology management was major bottleneck or source of chaos
  • term invention/definition tension between centralization and underspecification
• URI's leverage existing social system to create unambiguous terms
• URI's provide dereferencing system for acquiring latent semantics
• coincides with industry interest in process process integration
• coincides with world enthusiasm for the world wide web