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In 2003 I wrote my M.Sc. thesis about semantic web technologies such as RDF, RDFS and querying such semantic graphs. It's seven years later, nothing happened i
by Maro 16y ago
In 2003 I wrote my M.Sc. thesis about semantic web technologies such as RDF, RDFS and querying such semantic graphs.
It's seven years later, nothing happened in terms of real-world adoption, it's safe to declare it DOA. In fact it's been safe for several years.
- mindcrime 16y agoWhy after seven years? From the time TBL invented the original web to the time it saw massive adoption was a decent amount of time, depending on exactly how you want to define "massive adoption." And the problems that the SemWeb are trying to solve are arguably harder, so it makes sense that the ramp up would be slower. And never mind the fact that there is real world adoption. Google and Yahoo both embraced RDFa a couple of years ago, and have you checked LinkedData.org lately? There's a constantly growing body of data out there in semantically interoperable formats: http://linkeddata.org/ http://linkeddata.org/
- Maro 16y agoEverything that matters and is going somewhere is using JSON.
- mindcrime 16y agoThat doesn't contradict the notion that the Semantic Web is of growing importance in any way. RDF triples can be encoded in JSON just as well as they can be encoded in RDF/XML or Turtle or N3 or what-have-you[1][2]. And work continues on a spec to formalize the relationship between RDFa and HTML5[3], so even though XHTML2 got shit-canned, it won't hinder the ability to embed RDFa. [1]: http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/04/20/rdfj-semantic-objects-in-json http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/04/20/rdfj-se... [2]: http://n2.talis.com/wiki/RDF_JSON_Specification http://n2.talis.com/wiki/RDF_JSON_Specification [3]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/rdfa-module.html http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/rdfa-module.html