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It is undervalued because it only offer value to third party search engines and web scrapers. The site owner does not derive any returns from implementing RDF w
by melony 4y ago
It is undervalued because it only offer value to third party search engines and web scrapers. The site owner does not derive any returns from implementing RDF which is often a non-trivial amount of work. The biggest search engine on the planet has enough scale that RDF offers it negligible value. Academia won't be able to convince anybody soon until they can show improvements in $.
- p_l 4y agoBBC thought differently - they don't expose it externally, but BBC website uses semantic Web technologies on the backend to automatically link relevant information including making it easier to author new content.
- mro_name 4y agoI wonder what happened to RDF at BBC. There must have been an earthquake around 2014? I was deeply impressed and inspired to my toy-project radio recorder. Check $ rapper -i grddl -o turtle 'http://rec.mro.name/stations/b2/2022/05/23/1005.xml http://rec.mro.name/stations/b2/2022/05/23/1005.xml'
- FrankyHollywood 4y agoNot completely agree, I work at a company who makes money with semantic web consulting. It is really powerful technology, which we use to index and unify customer data, but also for dynamic React front-end generation. I was a bit hesitant to start working at this company, because of the many negative notes here on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+the+semantic+web https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+the+semantic+web) This contrasts with what I experience, we have a growing customer base, both in healthcare and finance. Just do a LinkedIn job search with a keywords like 'sparql' or 'semantic', you'll see many jobs.