# Is RDF "hard"?

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/is-rdf-hard/5056>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/is-rdf-hard/5056 "2022-01-26T18:15:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/aschrijver/32/463_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/is-rdf-hard/5056/5 "2022-01-27T20:51:10Z")

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It is funny. Just now there’s a cool HN thread [The Block Protocol | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30103401) where [one of the comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104031) says: _“Oh look, someone reinvented semantic web again.”_ and further on it goes into _“Why is RDF a bad thing?”_ with [response](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105172):

> - Layers upon layers of complexity: Implementing CURIs alone is a non trivial task, although all that’s really needed to describe entities and attributes is 128bit UUIDs.
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> - There is no good build-in way for authentication and trust.
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> - Description Logic (the foundation of OWL) has a fundamentally prescriptive philosophy, which makes it inappropriate for most practical applications.
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> - No good library and tool support in general, due to the complexity.
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> - Blank Nodes
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> - No good consistency mechanism for distributed data generation, and Quads (having multiple graphs) don’t properly solve this.
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> - Using human readable entity and attr id’s leads to more bike-shedding and accidental collisions than it’s worth.
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> - High barriers to entry.
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> - After years of developer disappointment the earth is pretty much salted.

Some of these refer to what we discuss here.

Yes, I feel the same as you @dynamoRando and also want to stress there’s no criticism to my post, and mostly an encouragement to delve deeper into aspect that maybe deserve more attention.

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