From f5353dd1939b387536c202b89d6a3340d26b6ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=2E=20Fernando=20S=C3=A1nchez?= Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 10:42:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] post: rdf is dead --- content/post/rdf-is-dead.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/post/rdf-is-dead.md diff --git a/content/post/rdf-is-dead.md b/content/post/rdf-is-dead.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..543d32f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/rdf-is-dead.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: "RDF Is Dead" +description: +date: 2025-03-07T10:24:52+01:00 +image: +math: +tags: + - semantic web +license: +hidden: false +comments: true +draft: false +--- + +A big part of my research has been around vocabularies and semantic annotation. +And, to be honest, I've grown increasingly dissatisfied with the field. +To the point where I dread having to work on it. +Some day I will write about it in length, but today I've stumbled upon a post that covers the topic quite well: [The Semantic Web is Dead - ~~Long Live the Semantic Web~~](https://terminusdb.com/blog/the-semantic-web-is-dead/) (styling mine). + +In particular, this section has really resonated with me: + +># Academics and Industry +> +>The political economy of academia and its interaction with industry is the origin of our current lack of a functional Semantic Web. +> +>Academia is structured in a way that there is very little incentive for anyone to build usable software. Instead, you are elevated for rapidly throwing together an idea, a tiny proof of concept, and to iterate on microscopic variations of this thing to produce as many papers as possible. +> +> In engineering, the devil is in the detail. You really need to get into the weeds before you can know what the right thing to do is. This is simultaneously a devastating situation for industry and academia. Nobody is going to wait around for a team of engineers to finish building a system to write about it in Academia. You’ll be passed immediately by legions of paper pushers. And in industry, you can’t just be mucking about with a system that you might have to throw away. +{.note}