[wrnr]

I've been part of 4 commercial project that used the semantic web in one way or another. All these project or at least their semantic web part where a failure. I think that I have a good idea on where the misunderstanding about the semantic web originate. The author does seem to have a good understanding and is right about the semantic web forcing everything into a single schema. Academia sells the straight jacked of the semantic web as a life long free lunch at an all-you-can eat-buffet but instead you are convicted to a life sentence in prison. Adopting RDF is just too costly because it is never the way computers or humans structure data in order to work with it. Of course everything can be organised in a hyper graph, there is a reason why Steven Wolfram also uses this structure, they just so flexible. At the end of the day I don't agree with the author opinion of the semantic web having much of a future, I did my best but it didn't work out, time for other things.

[lyxsus]

> semantic web forcing everything into a single schema

I don't think "forcing" is the right word here, I think the right one would be "expects it to converge under practical incentives". That's a more gentle statement that reflects the fact, that it doesn't have to for SW tech to work.

Also, the term "schema" is a bit off, bc there's really no such thing in there. You can have the same graph described differently using different ontologies at the same moment without changing underlying data model, accessible via the same interface. It's a very different approach.

> never the way computers or humans structure data in order to work with it

If you haven't mentioned that you had an experience, I would say you confuse different layers of technology, because graph data model is a natural representation of many complex problems. But because you have, can I ask you to clarify what you mean here?

> Academia sells the straight jacked of the semantic web as a life long free lunch at an all-you-can eat-buffet

I disagree, bc I in fact think that academia doesn't sell shit, and that's the problem. There's no clear marketing proposal and I don't think they really bother or equipped to make it. There's a lack of human-readable specs and docs, it's insane how much time you need to invest in this topic even just to be able estimate whenever it's a reasonable to consider using SW in a first place. Also, lack of conceptual framework, "walkthroughs", tools, outdated information, incorrect information drops survival chance of a SW-based project by at least x100. But it can really shine in some use-cases, that unfortunately have little to do with the "web" itself.

[zozbot234]

RDF is just an interoperability format. You aren't supposed to use it as part of your own technology stack, it just allows multiple systems to communicate seamlessly.