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Re:Semantic Web Is Not Dead. It’s Having an Identity Crisis by throwaway311 on Monday November 03, 2014 @04:11PM (#8553537)
doesn't change the facts that it is expensive and the benefits are useless.
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Re:Semantic Web Is Not Dead. It’s Having an Identity Crisis by KingsleyIdehen on Thursday November 13, 2014 @08:04AM (#8601280)
Is the World Wide Web useless? If the answer to that question is "No" then its contradictory (albeit inadvertent) to presume a Semantic World Wide Web is useless.

Granted, the messaging behind the Semantic Web meme is simply as bad as it gets, especially for something so important.

The World Wide Web was a Semantic Web from inception. The Semantic Web meme should really have been presented as a new formalized insight into what already existed, since Web inception.

Links:

[1] http://bit.ly/evidence-that-the-world-wide-web-was-based-on-...

[2] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/03/world-wide-web-25-years-... .

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Re:Semantic Web Is Not Dead. It’s Having an Identity Crisis by mpetyx on Thursday November 06, 2014 @04:34AM (#8566361)
I could not disagree more. SW is great for several stuff. For example business logic, API creation and consumption and stuff like that. SEO is only a minor benefit from switching to that technology. I would totally recommend to follow the work on json-ld and schema.org and you will see that it is not what you have heard. I would only agree that SW is still a difficult concept to understand and start using for any developer and needs more effort on that direction.
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