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Ivan Herman

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Ivan Herman's personal blog at ivan-herman.name covers web and data. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

The one linked comment does not discuss the blog's writing. It argues about semantic encoding of data and Semantic Web adoption, so the linked posts appear to cover the Semantic Web.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. There was/is typically zero incentive to semantically encode data. As shown by things like IBMs Watson, you're better off extracting sentence semantics with NLP than by hoping someone has encoded the data for you. But yet, adoption of SemWeb tech is growing. Google and Yahoo both rolling out their respective "rich snippets" type interfaces a couple of years ago helped a bit. Those acts raised awareness of the value…

    Comment linking /2012/04/18/structured-data-in-html-in-the-mainstream/

    on “Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future”
  2. Submitted The fallacy of scientific publications as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How does IBM Watson find answers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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