Hello Web Design

FOREWORD

Whenever I dipped my toe in the waters of the semantic web, I noticed there were two fundamentally different approaches. One approach was driven by the philosophy that absolutely everything in the universe should be theoretically describable. The other approach was far more lax, concentrating only on the popular use cases —people, places, events—and that was pretty much it. These few common items, so the theory went, accounted for about 80 percent of actual usage in the real world. Trying to codify the remaining 20 percent would result in a disproportionate amount of effort.

I always liked that approach. I think it applies to a lot of endeavours. Coding, sketching, cooking—you can get up to speed on the bare essentials pretty quickly ...