Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:56:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [141.161.133.73] (HELO [10.0.129.100]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.5) with ESMTPS id 9609992 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 12 May 2010 11:36:38 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 08:37:53 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Pew Report on the Fate of the Semantic Web Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" One of the questions that I hear regularly, and is really difficult to answer, has to do with the prospects for the Semantic Web. The Pew Internet and American Life Project has recently issued a report that complies a substantial number of well-informed views on this issue. The report, and ancillary materials, can be found at: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx For what it's worth, my reading is that respondents are fairly evenly split, with a few more doubters than believers in terms of the impact on the majority of internet users in the next ten years. Although, of course, there's more to the Semantic Web vision than that, and impact can be both direct and indirect. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI