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Re:An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About ... by mindcrime on Monday February 14, 2011 @12:09PM (#2217523)
Why after seven years? From the time TBL invented the original web to the time it saw massive adoption was a decent amount of time, depending on exactly how you want to define "massive adoption." And the problems that the SemWeb are trying to solve are arguably harder, so it makes sense that the ramp up would be slower.

And never mind the fact that there is real world adoption. Google and Yahoo both embraced RDFa a couple of years ago, and have you checked LinkedData.org lately? There's a constantly growing body of data out there in semantically interoperable formats: http://linkeddata.org/

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Re:An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About ... by Maro on Monday February 14, 2011 @12:39PM (#2217674)
Everything that matters and is going somewhere is using JSON.
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Re:An Intro To The Semantic Web: Why You Need To Know About ... by mindcrime on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:12PM (#2217815)
That doesn't contradict the notion that the Semantic Web is of growing importance in any way. RDF triples can be encoded in JSON just as well as they can be encoded in RDF/XML or Turtle or N3 or what-have-you[1][2]. And work continues on a spec to formalize the relationship between RDFa and HTML5[3], so even though XHTML2 got shit-canned, it won't hinder the ability to embed RDFa.

[1]: http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/04/20/rdfj-se...

[2]: http://n2.talis.com/wiki/RDF_JSON_Specification

[3]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/rdfa-module.html

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