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The Semantic Web utopia suffered from pretty bad chicken-or-egg problem: why would anybody publish semantic data when nobody used it, and why would anybody cons
by bergie 16y ago
The Semantic Web utopia suffered from pretty bad chicken-or-egg problem: why would anybody publish semantic data when nobody used it, and why would anybody consume it when none was available. Instead of the utopia, I'm seeing technologies of the Semantic Web stack pop up in different places... CMSs publish RDFa for SEO purposes (see Google's Rich Snippets), and for example MeeGo's Tracker data handling layer is actually an RDF triplestore, with SparQL provided as the main API for app developers.
Apart from these, I see the big potential for these technologies in integration: if you publish your content with RDFa annotations, your site has an API 'for free'.
- akozak 16y agoIt might not seem like it, but publishers are coming around (at least in some domains). RDFa is getting traction as a source for metadata in communities like education and open content (disclaimer: it's part of my job to convince people in this area why they should also publish RDFa metadata). I'm convinced that this will be a gradual thing that takes hold in certain areas where it's immediately useful, and from there extends to other areas, sort of like the beginnings of the internet.
- bergie 16y agoYep, I'm also seeing positive signals. Both the SEO and the integration ("your website is your API") angles seem to work pretty well with publishers. In the IKS Project we're trying to implement some semantic features to many popular Open Source CMSs. When that is built-in, there will be lots more RDFa out there... http://www.iks-project.eu/ http://www.iks-project.eu/