Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

​Hi Melvin,​

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

​Today we are nowhere near this vision.  In fact,
>> ​​
>> we may be further removed from it today than we were in 2001.  If you
>> look at the last ISWC there was particularly little work on (Web) agents.
>>
> I think this may be more a reflection on ISWC than the semantic web.
>
​Good point.​

It's hard to make a useful client side app that is original, because
> normally the same functionality exists somewhere on some server.  So at
> that point it probably will struggle to qualify as original research.
>
I was also referring to more theoretic research into agents, agent calculi
and the like as a basis for computation.  If you search for "​Semantic Web
agents​" on Google Scholar you find that most papers are from 2001-2005.
This was apparently a research focus back then, which is what I meant when
I said that "
​
we may be further removed from it today than we were in 2001."

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Received on Thursday, 12 November 2015 09:46:30 UTC