Neil Saunders: Has our quest for completeness made things too complicated?

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Neil Saunders
Has our quest for completeness made things too complicated? - http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2009...
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Neil, great post. And you're right, we do make things too complicated sometimes, but do we do that at the level at which we ask questions, or at the software implementation level? My take is the latter, cause you need to ask questions the way you want to, but that doesn't mean what makes it all come together has to be one complex mess - Deepak Singh
Well, the ratio of usable tools to schemas/ontologies is a whole other debate :-) But sure, in principle the tools are there - for individual types of data. What I highlight in the post is the difficulty of genuine data integration, as opposed to the current "write a parser for everything and mash it up" approach. - Neil Saunders
#1 rule of data integration - if a format exists, it will be used - Deepak Singh

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