Comment by Hywan
6 hours ago
How different is it from the semantic Web (schema, RDF, OWL…)? Instead of reinventing something, why not using a well established technology that can also be beneficial for other usages?
6 hours ago
How different is it from the semantic Web (schema, RDF, OWL…)? Instead of reinventing something, why not using a well established technology that can also be beneficial for other usages?
Semantic web is for computers to read data from your website. WebMCP is for interacting with your website.
Using URIs as identifiers and RDF as interchange format, makes it possible for LLM's and computers to understand well what something really means. It makes it well suited for making sure LLM's and computers understand scientific data and are able to aggregate it.
I believe WebMCP will fail for the same reason as the semantic web and public APIs did: no one wants to put in the effort to make their website readable by machines, as that only benefits the competition and is immediately exploited by bad actors.