RDF is certainly awkward for many use cases, but it's the same API everywhere. Each custom web API needs custom code to use it.
I don't believe in automatic agents, either. But RDF as a universal data format, forming a web of data, can be useful even without agents. It allows linking, combining, loading and querying data from different sources without writing any code at all.
We're not at a point yet where this is often possible due to the lack of (good) RDF data, but the idea is strong. I work on uniprot.org, providing one of the largest free RDF data sets, and we see strong interest from our users---bioinformaticians who often spend most of their time writing import/export scripts instead of doing their actual work.
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RDF is certainly awkward for many use cases, but it's the same API everywhere. Each custom web API needs custom code to use it.
I don't believe in automatic agents, either. But RDF as a universal data format, forming a web of data, can be useful even without agents. It allows linking, combining, loading and querying data from different sources without writing any code at all.
We're not at a point yet where this is often possible due to the lack of (good) RDF data, but the idea is strong. I work on uniprot.org, providing one of the largest free RDF data sets, and we see strong interest from our users---bioinformaticians who often spend most of their time writing import/export scripts instead of doing their actual work.