The whole field has been dominated by research, i.e. the wish to make simple things complicated (in order to publish papers) as opposed to engineering, i.e. making complicated things simple (in order to produce usable software efficiently). As a result the standards are horrendously - and needlessly - complicated. The few major practical outcomes like the schema.org, json-ld and the google annotation system, are resu…
Yeah, this is an unfortunate consequence of having the whole ecosystem mostly within academia, including the lack of tutorials and proper documentation (e.g. not a 500 page standard). IMO the most interesting place right now for semantic web development is Wikidata. It's still pretty difficult for newcomers to contribute (as is the case for all Wikimedia projects) but at least it has many eyeballs and a very active c…
There are lots of useful WIKIDATA links and demos on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/FSCI_2017...