PGS – Pretty Good Semantics is the result of months of conversation with Sam Hunting.
Our starting premise: Users want to say things of interest to them, as simply as possible, for them.
Note the focus on users. Not on description logic. Not on formal ontologies. Not on reasoning, artificial or otherwise. Not even on complex mappings between identifications. But on users.
All of those other things are worthwhile enterprises, some of them anyway, which you can pursue your own leisure.
The question is how to empower users to say things about what interests them? And if possible, how to do so without re-writing the WWW to deal with 303 clouds, etc. ?
Our answer to those questions: PGS – Pretty Good Semantics. It asks very little of users yet can annotate any identifier on the WWW to say whatever a user likes.
It uses existing HTML techniques and works with existing web servers and search engines.
Enjoy!