The scenario descriptions are distinctly reminiscent of Berners-Lee's scenario descriptions for the 'semantic web' several years ago. Of course, that is now rat

The scenario descriptions are distinctly reminiscent of Berners-Lee's scenario descriptions for the 'semantic web' several years ago. Of course, that is now rather out of fashion, but not entirely justifiably. The 'semantic' angle was somewhat fanciful, but the core idea was the data web: It is one thing to put APIs on everything, but another for all the data types and formats to work together. That was more the aspect that RDF was addressing. It is neither thoroughly convincing nor completely apposite, but worth factoring in to the consideration anyway. (The essential RDF concept was elegant, whatever anyone says.)