We've all been talking about "The Semantic Web" for a very long time. I would love to be proven wrong but it all reminds me of EDI[1] which for more then 30 years has tried to develop standards around data formats. I think all of these efforts so far have been doomed to die a horrible death because they don't have an obvious benefit for those involved in the massive investment required to get it right. I think theore…
From a product standpoint, schemas are small technical details with relatively low influence on the outcome: it just needs to work. Unless you're operating at extreme scale, you should put much more work into whatever you actually do with the data.
Semantic Web people talk about the Semantic Web because it's what they do. They don't just build X, they create an ontology to build X, which somehow makes X better. And, most likely, slower.