And one step back

Better part of last night reading. It strikes me that the wondrous world of RDF is less well documented than many other parts of the web. There is documentation. I find it scanty and like most W3C literature, targetted at the implementor rather than the user. It's a hard climb and to make it worse, the jargon is just one more level up than most that I've come across.

I often hear about people reaching a point in the learning curve where they know enough to realise how little they know, from which point the real learning starts. I'm beginning to think of the possibilities now, though I'm still woefully short of a mental map of the territory.

I have an ontology. I have some data - statements about documents. I have some inference rules. I know that cwm can process them as one. I'm still left with some sort of missing application, by which I can ..... this is where I'm really unsure. For example, If I have an inference engine, can I add those inferences to my data file? I'm only guessing when I say that sparql will be the tool to use for querying... my data I assume.

Bottom line I still have a way to go.