Semantic Web Technologies: Issues and Possible Ways of Development

Abstract

Semantic digital technologies are as useful as they are difficult to implement. During its existence, the concept of the Semantic Web has still found very limited application and extremely slow development. The reasons for this are serious differences in the structure of hypertext and the Semantic Web as a superstructure above it, and the rules that circumscribed the development of the internet. Semantic search engines still do not implement semantic search in its pure form: various data organization schemes and data visualization formats make it a little easier to analyze facts, add them to databases, but do not make knowledge bases out of the latter, do not allow working with facts as with knowledge. In addition, the user interfaces of such systems tend to be either very complex or counter-intuitive. Nevertheless, there is every reason to believe that with the use of modern technologies, the ideas of semantization of the web and its content can already be improved and gradually implemented: for this it is necessary to get rid of some false expectations of semantic technologies, to direct efforts towards the development of web native formats of semantic markup and try to take advantage of the increasingly common voice input of household devices.