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posted by Editor
on Monday July 24, @06:29PM
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This article on xml.com describes seven barriers to the adoption of the Semantic Web:
A lot of the semantic data being created today is inaccessible or unusable through the formal Semantic Web standards, or is simply not useful;
There is little interest from developers in building Semantic Web applications (as shown by googling the terms "rdf" and "semantic web", which produces barely enough hits to rise above noise level compared with established development standards);
The Semantic Web's relative complexity represents a high barrier to entry, compared to systems like AJAX, which are built up from simpler technologies that are easy to adopt;
It is not yet clear enough to typical users exactly what problem the Semantic Web solves;
The Semantic Web depends on the contributions of people, which are inherently undependable (and the use of trust metrics to maintain the integrity of tags will only add to its complexity);
The Semantic Web would be much easier if there a central, top-down ontology were adopted, which is unlikely to happen in the egalitarian culture of the web;
The Semantic Web vision is fundamentally predicated on philanthropy, and until some sort of killer application appears that exploits Semantic Web standards, there will be no economic incentive for organizations to share their metadata.
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