Re:Ask HN: why isn't RDF more popular on HN?
by sktrdie on Saturday March 29, 2014 @01:16PM
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Indeed. I'm in fact surprised of all the negative comments regarding RDF and the rest of the Semantic Web here on HN. Not to mention the huge amount of research that is pouring in these topics from academia. I guess you're right, they may be adopted but just not talked about? If you search on HN anything of the Semantic web there's still very little content. It could be that academia is not very good at making these topics exciting enough. Nonetheless there must be a reason why so much research goes into things like RDF otherwise they wouldn't be thought so extensively in university.
It may be more popular than you realize. Perhaps people are using it but just make a big deal of it?
It could also be that RDF and the associate tech stack (OWL,SPARQL, reasoners, etc.) are a bit specialized and niche in terms of application, and have a learning curve that's just steep enough to put people off until they really understand why they need them.
Anyway, I can't speak for anybody else, but the semantic web stack, including RDF, OWL, SPARQL, FOAF, SIOC, etc., are a big part of what we're doing. In fact, you could say that our whole initiative is largely rooted in bringing Semantic Web tech into the enterprise.