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Semantic Knowledge Technologies: what the Semantic Web lost sight of, and what it never had

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 12, 2026 · UTC

The Semantic Web set out to give information a machine-interpretable form so that software could integrate and reason over it. Its standards became scientific knowledge infrastructure, but the machine competence it promised did not follow, and the systems now answering questions over scientific knowledge are language models holding no inspectable account of what they know. This paper argues the original goal was right and the technical programme incomplete, states what is missing, and names the extended programme Semantic Knowledge Technologies: the same technical core carried out of its web-p

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