Moribundity of Tools

[dbooth-boston]

'Can you imagine how
staggered I was to find that the tooling ecosystem has made no appreciable
progress in a literal decade? Name any other software that can see so little
growth and still be called "vibrant." The majority of tools I downloaded
required JVM and / or failed to start when installed locally. Web options
were poor as well.'
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2018Nov/0229.html

"I had to search
through a seemingly ever increasing amount of academic abandonware.
It seems that most semantic web code is for writing a paper then
moving on and not for building an ecosystem or maintainable service."
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2018Dec/0088.html

[kasei]

This seems related to #2. There's definitely a lot of "academic abandonware" out there. I think curated lists of tools that are actively maintained is a good first step. I recently came across @semantalytics's awesome semantic web list which is in this vein. Also, @cnstntn-kndrtv's Semantic Tools docker image is a nice approach to demonstrating a curated set of tools that can work together in an executable package.