Google announced it would end the Freebase project.

I missed this announcement. Seems big:

Google announced it would end the Freebase project, contributing the data to Wikidata. Freebase, while not based on W3C Semantic Web standards, was certainly one of the most significant semantic open data initiatives and helped to lead to Google’s knowledge graph. Aaron Bradley originally shared to Semantic Search Marketing (Google Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Vault):   "Google has evolved their knowledge graph beyond the need for Freebase"

I`ve filed this under "Discussion" because we`ve never created a "must-read" category for this Community.

In this, well, must-read piece Nova Spivack persuasively argues that 2014 marked the end of the first era of the semantic web, and that the new era that`s just been ushered in is the "Era of Cognitive Computing."

The call-out quote above continues to say that Google has evolved beyond needing Freebase "on two fronts."

The first is that schema.org "has become a major data source for Google’s Knowledge Graph."  Its "broad level of adoption", says Spivak, has made it "arguably the most successful semantic data project ever."

Second, "Google’s ongoing research into the Google Knowledge Vault, provides a more automated method of feeding the Google Knowledge Graph, based on artificial intelligence."  Google is now able "to extract knowledge from raw content on the Web" well beyond metadata provided for this content.

"These two initiatives combined, " says Spivak, "will ultimately reduce the need for a manually curated knowledge base like Freebase, and enable for a more rapidly updated database."

Here at Semantic Search Marketing the last few months have been dominated by discussion of exactly those two fronts of which Spivak speaks, so his piece is IMO a great segue for a year of even livelier semantic search discussions ahead.

(Apologies in advance for any cross- and re-posting of this link I do:  as I said, it`s a must read.:)

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