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by andraz 5070 days ago
Yes, this is sad. And it happens all the time.

Exactly the same thing happened to the whole Semantic Web effort at W3C. It basically got overtaken by enterprise and now it is of little interest or use to regular web developers.
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nl 5070 days ago
No.

The W3C semantic web efforts were run by academics, and were never of interest to enterprise OR to web developers.

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andraz 5070 days ago
Yes, academics too. Also I am seeing lots of very loud enterprise software people around those standards. Yes, those are very small enterprise software companies.
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obtu 5070 days ago
This stuff is used within silos (Watson, bio/medicine research), but expanding it to the web is hard because entities that collect data want to monetise it, and do not see the value in reducing friction.
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