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Onthologies are hard. Curation is harder. People are lazy. The ideas are still around; some [1] were lifted by Facebook [2], for example. There's also continua
by niftich 9y ago
Onthologies are hard. Curation is harder. People are lazy.
The ideas are still around; some [1] were lifted by Facebook [2], for example. There's also continuation work that's related, like web annotations [3], but generally the commercial web is moving even more away from neatly-organized resources [4] and towards Javascript state machines [5].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160713021037/http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215 https://web.archive.org/web/20160713021037/http://dig.csail.... [2] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729525#13740110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729525#13740110 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206846#12207459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206846#12207459 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345693#12346371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345693#12346371
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoI think you hint great points especially with "People are lazy". The semantic web was a great idea, but in the period from 2000 to 2010, people advertized it as a kind of AGI that would solve all hard problems with junk data. It is still used in biology, for example in Gene Ontology [0] but the main use case (People are lazy) is "If your research cannot find interesting stuff, just query Gene Ontology". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_ontology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_ontology
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoWhile re-reading what I wrote, a part of a sentence makes me wonder "a kind of AGI that would solve all hard problems with junk data"
- mateo411 9y agoWhat does AGI mean in this context?