Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish
Actual title: Google and other tech giants are happy to have control over the Web's metadata schemas, but they let its infrastructure languish<p>I know that hating on Google is fashionable, but that's a bit too much editorializing. Especially considering the content of the post, and Google just being a small side note.<p>---<p>On-topic: I recently looked into using schema.org types as the basis for a information capturing system, but many of the types are somewhat outdated, of questionable quality or just missing.  Development indeed seems slow, while changes that are needed by one of the larger involved companies get pushed through quickly.<p>I think a big part of that stagnation is a lack of interest though. The whole semantic web domain has been pretty much inactive.<p>It's a real shame: having canonical types for most things in existence, and have those actually be supported as import/export formats or for cross-app integrations, would be immensely valuable! But there is absolutely no business incentive there - rather the opposite. Easy portability of data is not something most companies would want.