The Smelly Semantic Web
Phil Jones has a long piece in response to Danny Ayers‘ (and others‘) rebuttals to critics of the Semantic Web. He says:
This is just one of many examples why, in the final analysis, the W3C’s implementation of the SW smells so bad. And why programmers with a sense of design aesthetics run a mile when they see it. RDF is pitched as some extremely high-level meta-language which can describe almost anything, yet in practice it’s riddled with premature implementation commitments : to web-protocols, to XML standards etc. It’s this mismatch between the claims for generality, and these awkward, intrusive implementation details that looks ugly and is so off-putting.
Its a long piece, but worth the read (or at least a skim).
(Via Danny Ayers.)
