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Re:Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applica... by jcelerier on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:50AM (#22441457)
Please don't bring RDF out of its coffin. It has been tried and failed because it's overly complex and verbose. It's terrible, and technologies which still use it are terrible to interact with to this day.
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Re:Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applica... by willberman on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:28AM (#22443378)
Interestingly enough I think that the core of rdf (the subject predicate object triple) is a quite elegant abstraction for knowledge graph representation.

I do agree that the layered system of different ontology languages as present in current semantic web standards is not beginner friendly, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be improved on.

I think you might be throwing the baby out with the bath water.

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