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# Jim Gray interviews Tim Bray
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/jim-gray-interviews-tim-bray/
- Published: 2005-03-19T17:09:50.000Z
- Updated: 2005-03-19T17:09:50.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

Tim Bray talks about search, XML, semantic web, RDF and other things in an interview in Queue. The interviewer is Jim Gray of Microsoft Research. I wonder were the rhyming names deliberate 😉

> I spent two years sitting on the Web consortium’s technical architecture group, on the phone every week and face-to-face several times a year with Tim Berners-Lee. To this day, I remain fairly unconvinced of the core Semantic Web proposition. I own the domain name RDF.net. I’ve offered the world the RDF.net challenge, which is that for anybody who can build an actual RDF-based application that I want to use more than once or twice a week, I’ll give them RDF.net. I announced that in May 2003, and nothing has come close. \[[ACM Queue – A Conversation with Tim Bray – Searching for ways to tame the world’s vast stores of information.](https://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=282&page=3&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]