This article describes a bit the history of semantic web Efforts and it leads to a couple of interesting threads that I wanted to share with you

Here is the first interesting aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907346 I came to the link through this hackernews entry and its interesting to read the comments. Uncovering quite a separation between when is described as "academic" semantic web efforts and some examples from real (engineering?) implementations. Quite the revelation on how the institution of science is failing but also how discussion culture in society is in seriously desolate state. (IMHO)

I shared then this thread with the hyperlink academy https://forum.hyperlink.academy/t/roamlab-a-framework-for-building-community-labs/1811/5?u=curious_reader I will try to summarize my view from there here again. Referring to the semantic web article it seems interesting to me that after all these developments in the semantic web realm there are now clusters emerging around what is called personal knowledge graphs. Even if the article only mentions knowledge graphs I do find it very important to put emphasis on the personal aspect of knowledge graphs. To get people to actually care about software and knowledge structures it seems like a good idea to stark with the organisation of personal knowledge because they can much easier relate to that. Which in turn has lead to bloom in tools to assist that purpose: roam , zettls, athens etc etc..

As mentioned in the hyperlink forum some time last year I was discussing things with people from roam and runar from unison and so gtoolkit (@Tudor Girba came up.

So I see a kind of renaissance as tools like Gtoolkit and potentially unison later aspire to vision of personal computing that was unfulfilled even though Alan Kay, ted nelson and many others have been dreaming about it since quite some time.

Im really looking forward to not only meshed knowledge graphs but also personal object repositories which would enable at least some part of the vision alan kay outlined here @Srini K: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5U3SEW6A/p1612118402036300

Leaving the shackles of Appstores and other notions behind. Allowing for interesting experiments

I followed the references and didn't see anything exciting to me personally. I am sort of working on something like Semantic Web + Objects, but not really like either of them.

One of the biggest problems within society I see that people loosing the ability to talk and listen to each other, to find a shared understanding of reality.