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I think this doesn't take economics into consideration. most companies aren't that interested in sharing their data in an anonymous way.
by matei 16y ago
I think this doesn't take economics into consideration. most companies aren't that interested in sharing their data in an anonymous way.
- sabalaba 16y agoI think you might have heard a similar statement in 1991 to the effect of: "It doesn't take economics into consideration. most people/companies aren't that interested in sharing their documents in an anonymous way. WWW is a web of documents. SemWeb is a graph of data. More reading: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/ http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/
- matei 16y agoYou have a good point, but we're not using the web today in the document oriented way of the early 90's. Sure, if someone will invent a way to use the semantic data in a way that could generate income or market value for the data owner/publisher, then the SemWeb will take off. However in the current presented form, I don't see a strong incentive for any profit oriented agent to just put out their data in this way.
- mindcrime 16y agoDepends on which data you're talking about and what the purpose of sharing it is. If it's a catalog of items for sale on an e-commerce site, then sharing that data widely - in order to make those items more discoverable - might be just what a company wants.
- matei 16y agoTrue. This means that the result will be just improved vertical searches of products which is kind of what price comparator sites already do pretty well these days.