Why It's Hard to Talk About the Semantic Web
- The Semantic Web suffers from its own name
- "Semantic" sounds academic & pretentious
- "Semantic Web" sounds separate from the Web
- The Semantic Web is very general
- Not designed for any one particular problem
- Impossible to predict all uses
- Understanding the Semantic Web involves a chain of reasoning
- People's prior knowledge of the Semantic Web varies widely
