The Semantic Web Is Dead – Long Live the Semantic Web

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Semantic Web is dead, because we've suddenly achieved its goal without it.

We no longer need everyone to publish their information in a machine-readable form, because through LLMs we can make machines read the human-readable versions now.

LLMs are not quite reliable, but the machine-readable data was never reliable either. The Web as a whole is messy, and invisible metadata is systematically less well maintained than the primary human-centric information.

> The Web as a whole is messy, and invisible metadata is systematically less well maintained than the primary human-centric information.

besides web, there are tons of data providers and their clients, who are interested in well maintained quality of data..

> besides web

That's Semantic Besides, not Semantic Web then.

Some industries adapted semantic web stuff. Others could benefit from it(have common ontologies for data integration).

Machines seem to have a finer time picking through our detritus than any armies of engineers trying to give it context.

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