Wasn’t much of this covered by the whole Semantic Web effort? They built a ton of stuff for self-describing data (RDF) that federated over multiple hosts by def

Wasn’t much of this covered by the whole Semantic Web effort? They built a ton of stuff for self-describing data (RDF) that federated over multiple hosts by default (SPARQL), provided meaningful names (URIs everywhere) and multiple tools for giving all this semantic meaning (OWL, RDFS). It stalled for many many reasons, including: - XML is kind of awful - Over-general solution without clear advantages for a specific use case - Mis-aligned incentives - easy to abuse open query capabilities - Hard to use for both data publishers and consumers I think that JSON Schema with incremental enhancement via JSON-LD is a more promising tech stack for another try. That would let you take advantage of the massive investments in the current API ecosystem while carrying forward the best parts of the old Semantic Web Effort. Of course the incentives are still hard to sort out. Commercial entities WANT lock-in. They will Embrace/Extend/Extinguish anything they can because they need a moat to make money. Honestly anti-trust regulations might be needed.