Last year, I suggested that the Web 2.0 hype could be partly responsible for a lack of interest in the Semantic Web.

Google Trends can’t prove this, but the results of search volume for “Web 2.0″ against “RDF” shows a worrying state of play for the Semantic Web crowd.

This is an international issue. In some countries it is addressed better than others. (In France, for example, I understand that the layers are separated, and my colleague in Paris attributes getting 24Mb/s net, a phone with free international dialing and digital TV for 30euros/month to the resulting competition.) In the US, there have been threats to the concept, and a wide discussion about what to do. That is why, though I have written and spoken on this many times, I blog about it now.

    OWL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTIONS
    Second International Workshop
    Athens, GA, USA, 10-11 November 2006
    Co-located with ISWC06 and RuleML06.    http://owl-workshop.man.ac.uk/OWLWorkshop06.html