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arXiv paper argues Semantic Web's machine-reasoning goals went unmet
A new arXiv paper examines the history of the Semantic Web, noting that while its standards became part of scientific knowledge infrastructure, the machine understanding and reasoning capabilities it promised largely failed to materialize. The author argues that the field lost sight of certain goals and never possessed others, and proposes semantic knowledge technologies as a reframing of the original ambitions.