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The semantic web set out to make the Web's data readable by machines. Parts of it are now everywhere, parts were abandoned, and parts are open again. This catalogue traces what happened and what is in play, without taking a side on how it ends.
Why are you here?
- New to this?Introduction →How the story unfolded, where you already meet it, and what to read first.
- Getting oriented?Where we are →For each design question: what is settled, what is open, and what pushes it one way or another.
- Back again?The board →Decision points coming up, questions still waiting for answers, the latest signals, and where to join in.
Other ways in
- Follow one problem from start to finish 28 problem threads
- The works to know first the canon, by design issue
- What pushes outcomes forces, as their sources argue them
- See it all at once issues by tradition, or the timeline