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Can someone explain why the semantic web, linked data, and RDF/OWL/SPARQL aren't mainstream yet? What happened to Web 3.0 and why did we get Web3 instead?
by miguelrochefort 4y ago
Can someone explain why the semantic web, linked data, and RDF/OWL/SPARQL aren't mainstream yet?
What happened to Web 3.0 and why did we get Web3 instead?
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- tingletech 4y ago"The semantic web is the future of the web, and always will be." -- Peter Norvig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjJTgXujno&t=1257s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjJTgXujno&t=1257s
- gryn 4y agono qualified to give a definitive answer, but from looking from the outside: - clunky verbose syntax - at odds with economics incentive of the web. everyone want to build their own walled gardens and make access to data harder (ex anti-scraping measures) - reasoning using the open world assumption (OWA) is harder the the other-way around. - tried to do many things at once. - the multitude of ways to reason and represent non trivial things. how do you handle disagreements esp when taking into account OWA. it's possible but hard. a lot of people would just rather have a closed world of reasoning where they dictate things instead of tackling it 'the proper way'.
- planck01 4y agoAnd faulty assumptions about people who would add semantics to data because of ... and because some people also write html. And the semantic web doesn't really solve any problems that anyone has. And performance scaling for semantic reasoning is fundamentally worse than proof-of-work schemes in blokchain. And the semantic languages are typically not that fun and easy and productive to work with.