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Twelve years ago I basically called the Resource Description Framework (RDF) "dead on arrival". That was perhaps too harsh of an assessment, but I had my reasons and since then I haven't had a lot of motivation to regret those words. Clearly there is a great deal more data available in RDF-encoded form now than there was then.

Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.