# Next Step Semantic Web
It’s absolutely fantastic that more and more people are taking up Semantic Web solutions and providing RDF.
Guys and Girls it’s time for the next step!
This is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. People, although they are taking up the SemWeb, they don’t seem to understand the full power of it’s expressiveness. This isn’t a providing problem, this is a usage problem…. Yes it’s fantastic that we can interlink objects now, but what does it mean to be an object? What can we learn implicitly and explicitly from this highly-structured and highly-distributed web of data objects? and finally, what can we do with what we learn?
These questions are the real heart and real soul of the Semantic Web, and an area in which us Semantic Web advocates have really mentioned much before.
And please note, this shouldn’t *just* be an academic thing. Systems which embrace this, and which are in the wild, would greatly benefit. It’s breaking down the walled-garden and combining the intelligent systems which have previously been in websites like amazon.co.uk and google, and exposing those methods to the real semantic data.
The key to all of this is improvement of society. If your project improves society (or helps the environment in some way), then your project should be excellent. Whether or not it makes money!
Hope this all makes sense…. feel free to ask questions, or give your opinion.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
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March 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Interesting things are definitely happening outside academia - besides corporate interest in social media which needs better content aggregation through semantic analysis, people are building exciting personal tools that latch on to RDF and FOAF. This BBC article caught my eye: https://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/27/bbc-research