  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.
