News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by dougskinner on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:54AM (#23747846)
Sounds like you want website to embrace the semantic web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by akrymski on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:00AM (#23748624)
Not quite. The semantic web focuses on normalizing all data into a single ontology, which is great for computers but does nothing to standardize the user interface side of accessing data. Needless to say, it also hasn't gotten far.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by dougskinner on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:16AM (#23748799)
That's a good point, and I completely agree that it hasn't gotten far.

I do think that if it were to be embraced as a more common standard on websites, building a more standard UI on top should be _relatively_ simple as each websites underlying data would _hopefully_ be structured the same.

[ Parent | on HN ]