The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life
So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings;
"There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues are tied to your inability to understand what they're saying or the bills you're paying."
"One of the prime targets for this confusion [he continues] is the Semantic Web. They will tell you it's about artificial intelligence, acronyms such as RDF, object-oriented data structures and meta this and hypertext that. The bottom line is this: the Semantic Web is about bringing information to life." (my emphasis)
Too right. The 'RDF, object-oriented data structures and meta this and hypertext that' are no more than a means to an end... and we forget this at our peril.