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The semantic web failed to become widely popular because: 1. Graph databases on top of triple stores are a lot less scalable than relational databases or key-v
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
The semantic web failed to become widely popular because:
1. Graph databases on top of triple stores are a lot less scalable than relational databases or key-value stores, and this is how semantic data is meant to be stored/queried.
2. Data is valuable. Handing out data for free in a machine-consumable way is both expensive (machines can request data much more quickly than a human) and a recipe for copycats. The incentives just aren't there.
TBL's Solid project is about trying to separate semantic data providers from the presentation layer and opening up the possibility of payment from these data providers to try to improve the incentives around semantic data sharing.