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I 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
by akshatpradhan 12y ago
I 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...