> Asking ever day users to create a site (buy a DNS and all that) and create a FOAF file and host it is kind of ridiculous. Plus it doesn’t do anything by itse

> Asking ever day users to create a site (buy a DNS and all that) and create a FOAF file and host it is kind of ridiculous. Plus it doesn’t do anything by itself. Someone still need to write software that will parse all those files, follow links, and present the information in a sensible manner. Somehow the SemWeb guys have this magical thoughts that once data are online in RDF the web will be revolutionized. Expected it doesn’t because writing software is the hard part, not converting data from a format to another. Then there is triple stores. The other day I was in front of a Sparql endpoint, with no documentation so I couldn’t get any data from it. And if I got any I would still had to do heavy processing to make use of it. SemWeb is just string programming with IRI to be fancy. Just let it die.