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I guess reality is the best counter argument to your claims. RDF does not exist outside of academic toys and FOAF is so statistically irrelevant that it can ea
by evgen 16y ago
I guess reality is the best counter argument to your claims. RDF does not exist outside of academic toys and FOAF is so statistically irrelevant that it can easily be said that it never really existed in the first place. As the original article points out, XML may have a place in certain forms of document exchange, but as far as the web is concerned it is mostly just one failure after another.
- Ixiaus 16y agoFOAF is irrelevant in many respects, I'll give you that; but, RDF certainly does exist outside of academic toys. Big names that I know of that use/publish RDF: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/the_world_cup_and_a_call_to_ac.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/the_world_cup... http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/RDF http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/RDF http://richard.cyganiak.de/blog/2009/10/linked-data-at-the-new-york-times-exciting-but-buggy/ http://richard.cyganiak.de/blog/2009/10/linked-data-at-the-n... http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/SciVerse-Hub-Application-Connects-Researchers-With-US-Government-Datasets-72876.asp http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/SciVerse-Hub-Appl... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evri [EDIT] Don't forget DBpedia and FreeBase (which uses RDF heavily) is used heavily by PowerSet which subsequently was bought by Microsoft which now (as far as I know) is used heavily for Bing.
- simonw 16y agoFreebase wasn't built around RDF - they ended up emitting RDF because it made sense to do so, but the core APIs the service is built on are based around JSON, not RDF.