Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 02:27:10PM -0500, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> > To me, The Semantic Web is like Google, but then run on my machine.
> 
> To me its just a Web of Data [...]

Ruben says "The Semantic Web" and Kingsley answers "just a Web of Data".

In my tutorial "introduction to the semantic web" last week at
SemWeb.Pro, I presented the Semantic Web and the Web of Data as the
same thing.

Then Fabien Gandon from Inria summarized the first session of the MOOC
"Le Web S�mantique" and distinguished two items in a couple
(web of data ; semantic web).

It made me think that splitting the thing in two after the fact might
have benefits:

- Web of Data = what works today = 1st deliverable of the SemWeb Project

- Semantic Web = what will work = prov, trust, inference, smartclient, etc.

It allows us to say that The Semantic Web Project *has*delivered* its
version 1, nicknamed "Web of Data", and that more versions will follow.

[Hopefully in a couple years the "Web of Data" will have completely
merged with the One True Web and nobody will care about making a
distinction any more]

That way of putting things fits well with the iterative/agile/lean
culture of project management that is now spreading all over.

Do you know of people that have been trying to sell things this way?

-- 
Nicolas Chauvat

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