[riku_iki]

> 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..

[pornel]

> besides web

That's Semantic Besides, not Semantic Web then.

[riku_iki]

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