Every time I begin to explore using RDF and the associated technologies for a knowledge rich problem I always find the tool support a major disappointment. I understand there are exceptions (4store is a good example of a mature triple store) but generally speaking I always leave feeling much of the core tools never made it out of academia. And in a world where development time is a precious commodity, I always end up going with a lower friction but ultimately less powerful technology.
The Semantic Web Is Dead. Long Live the Semantic Web
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Re: The Semantic Web Is Dead. Long Live the Semantic Web
#42Semantic web is mainly an academic field. The theoretical research produced by this community is a foundation valuable for a variety of different fields. Stop thinking about the semantic web as the next big thing or the future of the web.
Just like many other research fields it lays strong theoretical (and at times also practical) foundations.
Re: The Semantic Web Is Dead. Long Live the Semantic Web
#43Having attended ISWC numerous times, this conference is long dead. It is the perfect example of eminence-based vs evidence-based science. Technicality of paper if low, most of the paper gathers bad and useless description logic theorems from the very same guys each year. The consanguinity rate is higher than any other CS conference. The quality of the conference is in fact well disputed among academics. Core[1] ranki…
Having attended ISWC this year, where I also published in the proceedings of a workshop, I believe you don't understand exactly how academia works. Academic fields such as the semantic web have nothing to give to industry.
It's like asking Einstein back in 1905 how is his work going to be used in industry.
Semantic web is not an industry or engineering field. It's theoretical and academic and it has its purpose because it lays strong theoretical foundations.
Re: The Semantic Web Is Dead. Long Live the Semantic Web
#44The Semantic Web is more about the semantics of schemas than amount the semantics of data. This is very poorly explained; people tend to think it means something about computers understanding the data.
Any linking provides context thus semantics. Linking to a schema makes this explicit and enhances latent semantics. So it's both right?
But that doesn't provide meaning to the data itself.
Re: The Semantic Web Is Dead. Long Live the Semantic Web
#45Having attended ISWC numerous times, this conference is long dead. It is the perfect example of eminence-based vs evidence-based science. Technicality of paper if low, most of the paper gathers bad and useless description logic theorems from the very same guys each year. The consanguinity rate is higher than any other CS conference. The quality of the conference is in fact well disputed among academics. Core[1] ranki…
Having attended ISWC this year, where I also published in the proceedings of a workshop, I believe you don't understand exactly how academia works. Academic fields such as the semantic web have nothing to give to industry. It's like asking Einstein back in 1905 how is his work going to be used in industry. Semantic web is not an industry or engineering field. It's theoretical and academic and it has its purpose becau…
The Semantic Web is developing a technology, like the Web is a technology. It is something that aims to be used by people, so to be implemented in real systems. Therefore it aims at giving smth to the industry. The theoretical argument of the semweb is absolutely meaningless.
Physicists study law of nature, there is no such thing in the Web which is a deeply human field. It's quite an insult for Einstein to be compared to the Semantic Web ...