Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

On 11/12/15 6:45 AM, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:27:10PM -0500, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>> > > To me, The Semantic Web is like Google, but then run on my machine.
>> > 
>> > To me its just a Web of Data [...]
> Ruben says "The Semantic Web" and Kingsley answers "just a Web of Data".
>
> In my tutorial "introduction to the semantic web" last week at
> SemWeb.Pro, I presented the Semantic Web and the Web of Data as the
> same thing.
>
> Then Fabien Gandon from Inria summarized the first session of the MOOC
> "Le Web Sémantique" and distinguished two items in a couple
> (web of data ; semantic web).
>
> It made me think that splitting the thing in two after the fact might
> have benefits:
>
> - Web of Data = what works today = 1st deliverable of the SemWeb Project
>
> - Semantic Web = what will work = prov, trust, inference, smartclient, etc.
>
> It allows us to say that The Semantic Web Project *has*delivered* its
> version 1, nicknamed "Web of Data", and that more versions will follow.
>
> [Hopefully in a couple years the "Web of Data" will have completely
> merged with the One True Web and nobody will care about making a
> distinction any more]
>
> That way of putting things fits well with the iterative/agile/lean
> culture of project management that is now spreading all over.
>
> Do you know of people that have been trying to sell things this way?

Hopefully everyone :)


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