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This is a great essay.

I love so many of the quotes:

[the RDF Working groups] continue[s] the narrative that the Semantic Web community creates esoteric solutions to non-problems.

When you chair standards groups that kick out “Semantic Web” standards, but even your company can’t stomach the technologies involved, something is wrong. That’s why my personal approach with JSON-LD just happened to be burning most of the Semantic Web technology stack (TURTLE/SPARQL/Quad Stores) to the ground and starting over.

As someone who has actually built a non-trivial RDF/SPARQL/Quad Store based app (and would love to avoid having to do that again..) I've avoided JSON-LD because of it's association with the semantic web. Maybe I should reconsider.

I'll add another quote for good measure:

"The semantic web is the future of the internet and always will be." - Peter Norvig.




As someone who has actually built a non-trivial RDF/SPARQL/Quad Store based app (and would love to avoid having to do that again..)

Having worked on WinFS, I'm a huge believer in linked data... Can you share more about the app and your experience with semantic web tech?


Uh, oh: "It was initially developed by the JSON for Linking Data Community Group before being transferred to the RDF Working Group for review, improvement, and standardization."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD


Right, that's what TFA is about.




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