Preparing a presentation I stumbled upon a graphic illustration of why we need better semantic techniques for the average author:
Linked Data in 2011:
Versus the WWW:
This must be why you don’t see any updated linked data clouds. The comparison is too shocking.
Particularly when you remember the WWW itself is only part of a much larger data cloud. (Ask the NSA about the percentages.)
Data is being produced every day, pushing us further and further behind with regard to its semantics. (And making the linked data cloud an even smaller percentage of all data.)
Authors have semantics in mind when they write.
The question is how to capture those semantics in machine readable form as nearly as seamlessly as authors write?
Suggestions?