Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
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Multiple problems.
This is one of several articles in a series that apparently are about minor European Union funded computer science projects. Thanks to User:Abductive, it came to light at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insemtives that there existed an offsite project aimed at inserting multiple articles about minor EU research projects on Wikipedia. All of these articles appear to be created by interested parties.
No notability
The projects they describe, generally, do not carry any indicia of organizational notability. Most are referenced only to internal sites, or to related sites for this entire family of projects. In fact, but for the fact that they are apparently funded or organized by the European government, they have no real showing of minimal importance.
Patent nonsense
What's worse in my eyes is that the prose tends to be patent nonsense, the sort of thing that no one can reasonably be expected to make sense of. The technical term is complete bollocks. They generally are written in that vacuous jargon filled with buzzwords, uninformative abstractions, and glittering generalities. They read like a mixture of cod philosophy and 1997-era cyber-utopianism. Their text appears deliberately calculated to seem vaguely grandiose and to demonstrate fluency with the patter while failing to convey actual information:
- The project will also tackle several major bottlenecks of knowledge technologies in the areas of semi-automatic creation of ontologies, automated methods for metadata creation and augmentation of legacy content, and distributed heterogeneous repositories.
Semantic Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture that host them, are expected by the project to make a significant contribution to the competitiveness of European ICT in the coming period, based on the fact that significant recent initiatives have built up strong foundations for practical semantic SOA. They have shown how new systems can profitably deploy semantics as a lingua franca for modeling the points of contact between software components at a higher level than previous technology.
User:DGG has suggested that these articles be merged into a variety of candidates such as Information System Technologies or Sixth Framework Program. Given the low quality of the prose, I am unconvinced that these texts are worth preserving anywhere. Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:18, 11 August 2009 (UTC)