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"Every successful project which is linked in any way to semantic web, would have been successful without the semantic web." I was thinking many times of it. Fo
by haddr 11y ago
"Every successful project which is linked in any way to semantic web, would have been successful without the semantic web."
I was thinking many times of it. For most of the time it is true, but not always. I still can find few good examples. Look at dbpedia. It may look messy, but there is vast amount of data there, that is taken advantage of by many projects (also commercial). While i can imagine making a database with the same data, it is the "linked data" initiative that gave it such possibilities.
I agree that there were huge loads of money spent on it, and many projects simply didn't deliver what was promised. But anyway, does research always succeeds in 100% of the cases?
- throwaway9216 11y agoYou think if not for semantic web, the dbpedia folks would've just shrugged and said "oh well, if only someone had invented a way for us to share knowledge"? It's like saying J.K. Rowling couldn't have written Harry Potter if not for Bloomsbury Publishing's in-house style rules. That's semantic web for you. Dbpedia is a project whose value is 99.9999999999% comprised of its content, 0.00000000001% comprised of semantic web scaffolding, and semantic web comes along and claims full credit for the entire thing.
- haddr 11y agoYes, but then again, everything would be much harder if there wasn't a framework for that. (As if there wasn't a concept of "publisher" for J.K. Rowling's books. She would need to invent everything from the scratch.