Ask HN: Is anyone interested in the Semantic Web?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36740931

by 6r17 • 3 years ago

3 9 3 years ago

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Hi HN !

I'm looking to build connection and discuss with people interested in the semantic web, Web 3.0 (not the crypto one), serverless web apps, data-governance, offline-first apps,

For those who do not know what the semantic web is, it's an idea that was coined by Tim Berners- Lee by exposing the concept that data could be reused between different different services.

Is anyone on HN working on that subject ?

neverrroot• 3 years ago

Not that I know of. A close friend wrote a master thesis in the area, last I heard about SW from him was around 2013

DamonHD2• 3 years ago

I've understood part of that to be machine-readable markup such as schema.org, and I make heavy use of it.

uberman2• 3 years ago

Why? Have you determined there is any benefit to your property to do so?

DamonHD2• 3 years ago

To allow for better understanding of pages by search engines, for example.

And there very clearly is benefit when there are improved organic search results making use of the schema.org (and other) structured markup.

Eg, look at https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

uberman2• 3 years ago

I worked for months to make client's site part of the "symatic web" under their misguided belief that doing so would bring some magic SEO lift and Google love. After months of work, Google Pandas wiped out their business.

From personal observation, there is absolutely no benefit other than to harvesters to efforts to embrace the symatic web.

hcks• 3 years ago

Semantic web was a meme from 2005, it didn’t take off and never will (you’re just working for people to scrap your content more easily)

icedchai• 3 years ago

I remember it being big in the late 90's when RDF was invented, during the early XML hype. It went nowhere.

6r17• 3 years ago

Thanks for the replies !

I'm building something else it seems, I'm trying to find app builders who want to focus on app-design and let their users store their data.

I'm made the link with Web 3.0 and Semantic web due to the ability i'm providing to my users of re-using their data between services.

I'm looking for app builders who want to focus on serverless features, i'm providing kind of a FireBase but where the user has total control.

Compatible with any storage engine, protocol or client.

If interested please reach me out at 6r17@proton.me

edit :

Concerning the semantic part it seems there were no real usage made except from promises of higher score,

I'm more interested in the (small ?) software market where data is not held hostage by the developer.

My feeling is that software grow old, but data should remain.

At the moment the web is like paintings glued with their frames.

I think it's mostly due to economical perspectives being reasonably promising due to the power laid by data collection

tg180• 3 years ago

I'm trying to find app builders who want to focus on app-design and let their users store their data.
I'm providing kind of a FireBase but where the user has total control

This sounds a lot like Solid (https://solidproject.org/), which is another brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee.

Their website has a showcase page (https://solidproject.org/apps), you could go to see which developers worked on those projects and offer them new opportunities.

Ask HN: Is anyone interested in the Semantic Web?

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