Our industry is aware of the scalability challenges of globally linked data, but we’ve yet to come to terms with the scale of semantic data. For a very rough estimate, multiply all the content that’s available on the Internet by every individual consumer by every individual perspective they might have on that content. Semantics is data at a scale that will dwarf the Web of today.
Peter Sweeney on the Primal Fusion Blog
This was posted 3 years ago. Notes.