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It's important to not dwell on the past. In the present here are two strong developments issuing from the original Semantic Web: Especially in Europe, research
by irickt 12y ago
It's important to not dwell on the past. In the present here are two strong developments issuing from the original Semantic Web:
Especially in Europe, research is very active and these technologies are core to many big science projects. (For example in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510885). These projects are exploring the higher aims of TBL's proposal - with good cause.
On a more down-to-earth level, there is now a solid web metadata standard in place in JSON-LD. The big search engines index it and presumably use it to give better results. Any startup can add value to published data by adding links - in a significant extension to the "API economy".
Think about it. The base concept of the semantic web is simply a data exchange format that can be used to implement a distributed relational database - a pretty practical idea. By way of the false starts of any broad initiative (eg XML) and withstanding a lot of political spin that I've never understood, we now have that standard.
Web developers should look at this opportunity with new eyes.
- porker 12y ago> On a more down-to-earth level, there is now a solid web metadata standard in place in JSON-LD. The big search engines index it and presumably use it to give better results. Any startup can add value to published data by adding links - in a significant extension to the "API economy". One pragmatic question is whether schema.org/JSON-LD is of benefit to anyone other than Google at the moment? I like the idea but with their dominance it feels like I am doing work to add value to their business, not mine.