> The entity name was the location was the definition. While that concept sounds cool in theory, in practice it was and is a disaster. In combination with the

> The entity name was the location was the definition. While that concept sounds cool in theory, in practice it was and is a disaster. In combination with the big degree of centralization and little versioning mechanisms you have to trust the publisher to not alter the semantics, and also hope that they stay online forever or your semantics vanish. When I first learned about the semantic web, I was very hyped on it, but that quickly subsided once I tried actually querying the ontologies and having to see that most of them yield a 404. I'm still very hopeful for semantic data (and happy to be able to work on a product leveraging it), but I think for an open semantic web there is a lot of work that needs to go into tooling to make it succeed.