This is a really fascinating analysis. I have wondered why the semantic web never took off, and I am finding myself interested in being able to create data sources in a federated way. The author’s mention of Data Mesh and his own project, TerminusDB looks like what I had been looking for, for a side project.
One adjacent project I did not see mentioned is XMPP. The extensibility of XMPP comes from being able to refer to schemas within stanzas of the payload. It’s also an interesting case study on an ecosystem built from a decentralized, extensible protocol. One of the burdens plaguing the XMPP ecosystem is spam, and I wonder to what extent we might see that if the semantic web revives again.
One adjacent project I did not see mentioned is XMPP. The extensibility of XMPP comes from being able to refer to schemas within stanzas of the payload. It’s also an interesting case study on an ecosystem built from a decentralized, extensible protocol. One of the burdens plaguing the XMPP ecosystem is spam, and I wonder to what extent we might see that if the semantic web revives again.