Semantic Encyclopedias and Boolean Dreams

When metadata becomes knowledge, opportunities for multiplicity and risks of harm exclusion arise. As GLAM institutions contribute to the Semantic Web, we must pay attention implications participation. While Web grew out flourishing web technologies in 1990s, recognizing its roots classical/symbolic AI (referred as Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, or GOFAI)—in particular, expert systems knowledge representation—encourages critical questions like: which problems from representation does inherit? Are GOFAI failures really failures, gap between rhetoric practice point generative possibilities (some can now be seen initiatives)? What learn critics, feminist approaches, unmasking encyclopedic neutrality? This research article will explore how critiques Cyc, an ongoing project create a common sense base, might apply Webefforts like Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBpedia, Schema.org.