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The semantic web failed due to HTML being a format for humans. Where humans need to enter for them unnecessary extra data so the machines could understand what
by z3t4 7y ago
The semantic web failed due to HTML being a format for humans. Where humans need to enter for them unnecessary extra data so the machines could understand what the humans already understood. There should be a (URL maybe?) scheme for machines generated by machines with standard properties like open hours, site category, etc.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoThere's still some attempt being made, for example with json-ld[1]. Ultimately any kind of microdata has the same problems that OpenGraph or ye olde meta keywords etc. tags did, GOOG and Co. need to parse the human-readable content to confirm any extra data for bots is not a trick. Which tends to encourage them to just ignore it, at best it's a slightly more structured version of what they're scraping from the page, at worst it's a lie. 1: https://json-ld.org/ https://json-ld.org/