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The W3C sort of had a solution with the semantic web, too bad nobody cared about the semantic web.
by shiggerino 12y ago
The W3C sort of had a solution with the semantic web, too bad nobody cared about the semantic web.
- fiatjaf 12y agoSome people care. And anybody implementing something like the suggested idea here should enable both hosted "preferences" and the capability of just being a hub for these same "preferences" hosted in external sites. Here's a solution that is like Gravatar, but for microformatted data in each people's own websites: http://webvatar.com/ http://webvatar.com/
- akshatpradhan 12y agoI personally think the semantic web was a solution in search of a problem. People weren't concerned about ontology and mappings. They were concerned with making the web more approachable. I think, therefore, money was invested into Mobile Apps / JS frameworks instead of tools for semantic web.
- shiggerino 12y agoI think it grew out of very much the same idealism that still drives Ted Nelson to this date. I guess to unify all of human knowledge to reach a higher form of understanding just isn't on most people's mind. Not even those whose day job it is to do just that, as is my experience from dabbling in academic publishing. This reminds me of an old blog post, Charles’ Rules of Argument [1]: “5. DO NOT argue with Lisp programmers, believers in the Semantic Web, or furries” 1. http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/03/21/charles_rules_of_argument/ http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/03/21/charles_rules_of_arg...