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Have you read the article? It addresses this point towards the end.


And it fails to address why SemWeb failed in its heyday: that there's no business case for releasing open data of any kind "on the web" (unless you're wikidata or otherwise financed via public money) the only consequence being that 1. you get less clicks 2. you make it easier for your competitors (including Google) to aggregate your data. And that hasn't changed with LLMs, quite the opposite.

To think a turd such as JSON-LD can save the "SemWeb" (which doesn't really exist), and even add CSV as yet another RDF format to appease "JSON scientists" lol seems beyond absurd. Also, Facebook's Open Graph annotations in HTML meta-links are/were probably the most widespread (trivial) implementation of SemWeb. SemWeb isn't terrible but is entirely driven by TBL's long-standing enthusiasm for edge-labelled graph-like databases (predating even his WWW efforts eg [1]), plus academia's need for topics to produce papers on. It's a good thing to let it go in the last decade and re-focus on other/classic logic apps such as Prolog and SAT solvers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE


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