I had to shorten the title a bit. 😉
Wanted you to be aware of the sort of nonsense that data warehouse people are being told:
The procedure described above enabling federation based on semantic technology is not hard to build; it is just a different way of describing things that people in your enterprise are already describing using incompatible technologies like spreadsheets, text processors, diagramming tools, modeling tools, email, etc. The semantic approach simply requires that everything be described in a single technology, RDF/OWL. This simple change in how things are described enables federation and the paradigm shifting capabilities that accompany it.
Gee, why didn’t we think about that? A single technology to describe everything.
Shakespeare would call this …a tale told by an idiot….
Just thought you could start the day with a bit of amusement.
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PS: It’s not the fault of RDF or OWL that people say stupid things about them.