Jeni's Musings

I just find RDF in general to be confusing… and the whole thing to be overly bloated and hard to use.

Where I get a little annoyed is that RDF really is something which lives in the web tier of an application… but due to it’s oddities it seems to intrude on all manor of application tiers.

Seriously, plain XML isn’t that bad: there may not be explicit meaning on each property, but usually when writing a computer program, we already implicitly understand the service we’re calling. I’m yet to work on a web service client which writes itself (the business logic) based on the service it’s calling.

I’d support RDF a whole lot more if it were just a tad more simple to use. It (including FOAF, RDFa) are a great example that we humans love nothing better then to expand on our ability to understand complexity until only one or two people even understand the basics.