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1. We've realized that people in general can't reliably and consistently mark data up. That's a problem of incentives, technical difficulties, UI, bitrot of inv
by pornel 9y ago
1. We've realized that people in general can't reliably and consistently mark data up. That's a problem of incentives, technical difficulties, UI, bitrot of invisible metadata, etc.
2. We've settled on extracting information from "raw" text (with everything from regexes to recognize flight info in e-mails to getting word statistics from terabytes of garbage) and duct-taping that with special-purpose APIs.
- LamaOfRuin 9y ago>That's a problem of incentives, technical difficulties, UI, bitrot of invisible metadata, etc Perception, culture, linguistics, time, reality.
- ssfrr 9y agoThe flight info example is one of the places where semantic web tech went mainstream. Those flight emails have embedded metadata in JSON-LD (linked data) format and Gmail uses it for more specialized display[1]. [1]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/flight-reservation https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/flight-...