"practicality" might have been the worst choice of word possible here. I meant as compared to maybe "ineffability," favoring embracing folk knowledge. In this context it means vs. idealism, academic impossibility. humbling how the meaning flips over such a small cultural divide
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1410085210499141632
I was using linked data here as if it were a near-synonym for semantic web, a subconcept of the broader idea: that's how I've heard it used. but to some people in these communities it is an opposing idea, a reaction against semweb. so close and yet so far
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1410090568215007232?s=19
the variation in reaction is instructive: some hear semweb as the totalizing ontology part (it's impossible, it failed), some as the technology and its effects (thriving under different names!) some hear it as the syntax and standards of triplets and beyond (still don't know!!)
anyway, as someone trying to understand and communicate with people in a neighboring programming community and finding all the words meaning different things, if anyone still (distressingly!) discounts qualitative/social/etc. research, this is why it is hard & important^^
(working on smth that gives appropriate credit to as many that did this work/study it as I can find, tbc, not pretending like I am saying anything new here, still figuring out what the heck)
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