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I tend to agree with the selected Cory Doctorow quote. “Put a tag on it” is the semantic web version of IoT’s “put a chip in it” - technically feasible, yes, but to what end all that time and expense? The author here is fuzzy on applications. Feels like a solution looking for a problem.

When it comes to augmenting digital assistants like Alexa or OK Google, standalone semantic knowledge bases like Wikidata [0] seem good enough. And as natural language understanding code gets better at interpreting user queries, so too does it get better at ingesting unstructured knowledge, such as raw Wikipedia articles, without need to resort to structured meta-tags.

[0] https://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

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Wikidata is such a great companion to Wikipedia, now most structured data is moved over and shared by all languages.