Ian Davis - It’s Not RDF versus Microformats:

Nobody wants two webs, but many of us want the freedom to publish whatever data we have into the existing web without a centralised process.

Let’s dial our time machine back a decade and consider a parallel:

Relational databases will never catch on because raw SQL dumps are ugly.

• It’s just one syntax of many possible. The model is what’s important.
• If your database is so big or so important that the syntax is a problem, why on earth are you populating it by hand?