https://emsenn.net/tags/webinfrastructure/ Recent content in WebInfrastructure on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/engineering/domains/tech/domains/computing/domains/internet/domains/web/texts/semantic-web-jiangshi-web/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/engineering/domains/tech/domains/computing/domains/internet/domains/web/texts/semantic-web-jiangshi-web/ <h2 id="abstract">Abstract</h2> <p>The Semantic Web did not fail. RDF graphs are queried daily, knowledge graphs underpin search engines, <a href="../../../../../../science/domains/information/concepts/biomedical-ontologies.md" class="link-internal">biomedical ontologies</a> coordinate research across institutions. The problem is not that the Semantic Web stopped working but that it works in a particular way — data circulates, queries execute, triples accumulate, and none of it can question whether its own categories still fit.</p> <p>Chinese folklore has a figure for this condition: the jiangshi (僵尸), the hopping corpse. A body whose joints have locked, animated by residual vital energy but incapable of flexible movement. The jiangshi is not dead. Its problem is more specific: it cannot change how it moves.</p>