The notion of a Web of Data seems compelling to the point of inevitability right now, but that might change. When it comes to the W3C “leading the Web,” at least as far as the Semantic Web initiative is concerned, it might be like leading a horse to water and having to wait for it to get thirsty. But what does seem fairly certain is that those paths that build on the Web’s successful features (in particular, decentralization and interface uniformity) will probably be the easiest in the long run.

danny remarks on some of the ‘data web’ trends i’m noticing too. i read somewhere that ie8 will have microformats support, too.
2006-12-07:

This is an environment in which the data is distributed, discoverable, described and linked just as the text data of documents is now. One would have a data browser and a service like Swivel would be more of an aggregator/search engine rather than a data repository. Rather than data tools exposed through current browsing technology, there would be a data browser.

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