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[tech] Draft RFC: RDF/Semantic web metadata embedding in gemini resources

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Fri Apr 23 15:07:31 BST 2021

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Chris McGee writes:

I've written up a first draft of an RFC for using RDF within gemini
resources to add parsable metadata and semantics.

Thank you for putting in time and effort to the Geminiverse.

That said, I don't think the Semantic Web is a good fit forGemini, and the experience of the Semantic Web and linked data on theWWW suggests that it is a technological dead-end that we are probablybetter-off not pursuing.

This article does a good job of summarizing what the promise of theSemantic Web was, and how it has come to be regarded as "as dead as lastyear's roadkill":

https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

-- Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,jmcbray at carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies, | but stranger still is lost Carcosa.” | ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow