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JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web

manu.sporny.org Essays & writing Essays & articles Web & internet Candidate

Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2014–2017
peak thread · 67 comments
106 pts
latest 20+ return · 2017-06-03
106 pts

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2007–2026

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Would you be so kind as to add (2014) to the end of the title? Since the post starts off by saying JSON-LD was made official "last week", it could mislead readers who don't notice the date in a small font between the title and the body.

Due to shitty academic job market, I was forced to take a job part of which could be described as "semantic web evangelist". If you read some incredibly optimistic article about the semantic web and how it solves all life's problems, there's a non-negligible chance that I wrote it. The semantic web is a colossal waste of time and money. It does more harm than good. Unless you're a savvy PI (probably in a European country) who has used it…

JSON-LD is just fantastic at bringing all the data in RDF to power real world JS/websites. Angular.js and JSON-LD plus SPARQL results in JSON is just so much fun to play with.

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
189

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Total comments
117

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2014-01-22JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Webjustincormack254
2015-06-06JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web (2014)First breakoutwalterbell5867
2017-06-03JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic WebBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnDamonHD10646