Does the Semantic Web matter?

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Hi Paul,

I agree to your post, Semantic Web does matter.
Unquestionably, the Web is moving towards a stage that
machines may understand our humans better and better.
It is the future. In order to reach the future, one
thing we must do is to educate machines so that they
may understand the meanings of content, which is what
the Semantic Web community is working. It is the
future and it does matter.

On the other hand, however, due to the recent
collaboration with a new IT startup company Imindi
(probably you have already known it by the most recent
Semantic Web Gang podcast) I start to think of another
take of this Semantic Web, i.e., we should also let
machines to improve humans as well as let humans to
improve machines.

As both of us know, a difficulty of advertising
Semantic Web is why people would be willing to help
machines by add extra annotations (or things like
that) so that machines (instead of humans) can consume
and then understand semantics. This is a very hard
problem. Although many Semantic Web researchers that
including you and me have tried to persuade the
skeptics the inevitableness of Semantic Web, many
regular people still doubt of it since they cannot see
why they need to do it without any immediate payback.

Now here may be the solution. We improve machines
because machines can improve (rather than just help)
us. In my mind, Imindi is such an attempt. The new
take of Semantic Web represented by Imindi might be a
great breakthrough that would bring regular unintended
Web users into the world of semantics.

Anyway, it's always great to share with you. If you
are interested in Imindi, I would be available to
share with you more about it. I have heavily involved
in it.

Yihong

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