Semantic Web

Recently Lou Rosenfeld posted to the SIG IA about the Future of IA. One aspect was a discussion on metadata. Some folks on the list have hashed out navigation, structure, meaning, but for me it keeps coming back to how my interests have morphed from IA & user experience from the design standpoint to more of the data architecture, metadata, taxonomy, thesauri development. I thought the Semantic Web was a good place to start on this topic of where I think IA is going, but you don't have to take my word for it...