Semantic Web in 10 years: Semantics with a purpose

Semantic Web, had its evolution in the last 10-15 years from very basic ideas, mostly initially converted from “Knowledge representation and reasoning”(KRR) area towards its very specific targets, developed along the way relevant in the recent years. We can observe this evolution along several dimensions–for sure, the dimension of the depth and strength of the operators applied on the structured data is the most characteristic for the Semantic Web (through the eyes of ISWC research community). Initially (after 2000), the strength of the operators (mostly inherited from KRR and logic) was relatively high, enabling deep reasoning–this had its own beauty, but lack of applications. In the later years (after 2007) the community (and funders in particular) recognized this deficiency and the area started splitting into ‘deep’and ‘shallow’Semantic Web, where ‘shallow’Semantic Web was targeting possible applications where semantics could get into the game.