Did you forget the /s? This sounds like you just read the first chapter of a book on the semantic web (SW) from the 90s and how great ontologies are and how they'll CHANGE EVERYTHING. The SW folks have been hyping this stuff for years. It sounds great until you begin to see the practical realities around it and it starts to look a little less, shall we say, "magical" and more like a huge pain in the ass.
Wow... haven't seen such a mean spirited and openly hostile reply in some time. You don't seem to engage much, so please take some time to familiarize yourself with the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FWIW I didn't read it as mean and hostile. It's just the reality - semantic web is here for 20+ years with very little penetrating mainstream. And huge amounts of efforts spent on the technology, filling the databases and creating tooling. What do you think is needed so that people actually use it and it solves some problems for them?
Yes, much like AI was here for 40+ years with very little penetration into the mainstream.
Technologies like this remain stagnant until the landscape is ready for them. In this case, the advent of AI and big data is what will make relationship data important. "Semantic web" as in human edited XML/HTML with semantic data embedded was never going to happen and was silly from the get-go. But RDF-style semantic data transferred between machines that infer meaning is an absolute certainty.
It's one of those things that's forever a joke until suddenly it's not. There's a fortune of oil out there, but we have to get past the steam age first (and that'll come sooner than you think).
