This seems to me to be an insightful and comprehensive overview of the Semantic Web, both current status and how we got here. People like me, who have long been wanting to better understand the (obviously sprawling) concepts involved will be able to use the article as a good entry point.
That said, the expressed hope of consolidation in the field is likely still some way off. AI has taken over a lot of the promise that the Semantic Web originally held. But AFAICS there are two drivers (also mentioned in the article) that potentially could provide the required impetus for a reignited interest in the Semantic Web:
Firstly the need for explainable AI, and secondly the probable(?) coming breakthrough in natural language processing and automatic knowledge graph or ontologies from text.
All in all, it seems way too early to write off the Semantic Web field at this point.
That said, the expressed hope of consolidation in the field is likely still some way off. AI has taken over a lot of the promise that the Semantic Web originally held. But AFAICS there are two drivers (also mentioned in the article) that potentially could provide the required impetus for a reignited interest in the Semantic Web:
Firstly the need for explainable AI, and secondly the probable(?) coming breakthrough in natural language processing and automatic knowledge graph or ontologies from text.
All in all, it seems way too early to write off the Semantic Web field at this point.