Interesting Video: Is the Semantic Web back?

*Hello All,*

First off, apologies if this probably belongs in the semantic web mailing
list. I have to admit that prior to coming into this group I was familiar
with JSON-LD (thanks to Manu's great explainer youtube videos!) but I was
not as familiar with RDF and some of the history behind the Semantic Web.

Over the past few days I have spent some time looking at some videos on the
history of the Semantic Web (partially triggered by some of our issues that
reference the need to have an ontology in turtle and references to OWL) so
that I could have better "@context" during our wg discussions  ;-p

For some time I have been holding the idea that perhaps the ideas behind
making the web semantic was perhaps an attempt at "boiling the ocean". Like
do we really need all the information in the web to be semantically rich?,
And was that even possible to achieve anyhow?  Something more achievable to
me seems that discrete sections or "databases" in the web could be made
semantically rich, such as certain wikipedia, academic papers, or science
journals, and of course verifiable credentials.

This video, though, makes an interesting argument that perhaps now with AI
agents, having semantic web data will become relevant again because it
would allow AI agents to more quickly reason through information. It also
has some pretty funny references to the history of the sematic web :-p.
Enjoy! And let me know if you agree with some of the things the video is
saying about the future of semantic web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czfoTMIbh9s

Best,

 Otto Mora
 Standards Architect / Product Evangelist
otto@privado.id
privado.id

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