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That was essentially the promise of RDF, OWL, The Semantic Web, Web2.0 and so on. After swimming in that stuff for 3 years in the early 00's, I could tell back
by krona 10y ago
That was essentially the promise of RDF, OWL, The Semantic Web, Web2.0 and so on. After swimming in that stuff for 3 years in the early 00's, I could tell back then that it was mostly a boondoggle, and even though those technologies have found their niche, the project failed for the same reason that the original WWW was successful.
It was like 'AI' in the 80's, but with XML.
- NoGravitas 10y agoThe feeling I got was that most of those were just too general to be suited for any specific purpose. You could, in principle, build a piece of social networking software out of them, but there was never a product that you could just deploy to your web server and use.