We aim to accelerate the original vision of the semantic web by revisiting design decisions that have defined the semantic web up until now. We propose a shift in direction that more broadly embraces existing data infrastructure by reconsidering the semantic web's logical foundations. We argue to shift attention away from description logic, which has so far underpinned the semantic web, to a different fragment of first-order logic. We argue, using examples from the (geo)spatial domain, that by doing so, the semantic web can be approached as a traditional data migration and integration problem at a massive scale. That way, a huge amount of existing tools and theories can be deployed to the semantic web's benefit, and the original vision of ontology as shared abstraction be reinvigorated.

翻译：我们旨在通过重新审视迄今为止定义语义网的设计决策，来加速实现语义网的原始愿景。我们提出一个方向的转变，即通过重新考虑语义网的逻辑基础，更广泛地接纳现有的数据基础设施。我们认为，应将关注点从迄今为止支撑语义网的描述逻辑，转向一阶逻辑的一个不同片段。我们以（地理）空间领域的示例论证，通过这种方式，语义网可以被视为一个大规模的传统数据迁移与集成问题。如此一来，大量现有的工具和理论可以部署到语义网中，使其受益，并重振将本体作为共享抽象这一原始愿景。