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Is the Semantic Web really Dead?

It seems that the Semantic Web has almost gone. Is this true? In this article we try to retrace the history of Semantic Web and define new challenges and opportunities where it could be applied to becoming trending again.

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In the early 2000s, one of the most popular topics was the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web, also known as Web of Data or Web 3.0, tried to give a structure to the content of Web pages such that they were understandable not only by humans but also by machines.

The Semantic Web is the Web of Data, instead of the previous versions of Web, which were the Web of documents.

The main technologies associated to the Semantic Web are:

• the Web Ontology Language (OWL), which permits to define a common vocabulary to represent data
• the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the language used to represent data and they relationships
• SPARQL, the query language used to query data.

In order to be successful, Semantic Web encouraged three strategies:

1. introduce concepts of artificial intelligence, to make…