Years of big promises and hyperbole. Multiple definitions for most important terms. Revolutionary “semantic” applications that turn out to be nothing more than yet another implementation of social bookmarking. NLP people hijacking the term “semantic web” and acting like they are too good to be even remotely associated with anything as primitive as linked data. Performing text matching and calling it “artificial intelligence”. These are just some aspects of the horribly confusing state that what we call “The Semantic Web” is in right now; and has been for years.
Confused? Yes, many of us are. So here are two excellent articles that might clear things up a bit for you:
- Never Mind the Semantic Web by Glenn McDonald, on 13 reasons for confusion.
- Misconceptions about Semantic Web by Rod Petrovic, on how you are probably wrong. ;-)
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I see the snow got to you too. Yes, the term semantic web is turning out to be an ambiguous one. I wouldn’t get over depressed about how people call things though. I think you’ll just have to accept that many people have many ideas what semantic web is (going to be). Now go out and make a snowman.
Yes I agree with you entirely. Semantics has to be deep to be useful – really.