OK - I'm about 60% through surveying Semantic Web standards. My conclusion is that the adoption of these "standards" is still very low. Adoption is high in domain-specific niches : this is a W3C standard, so web-technology companies, and companies that exposure their data on the web are the main champions. Outside of that, biomedical sciences uses it a bit. Almost no one else is doing : RDF, RDFS, RIF, OWL ... etc.
So it's like JavaScript : significant brand-equity within a niche, but the man on the street has no reason to get into it. Yet unlike JavaScript, Semantic Web is much less infrastructure dependent than web browsing - so there's a lot more room for wobble and non-compliance between systems. This may change in the future, but I'm not seeing it fix up right now.
RDF is just way too complicated, without adding a lot of value immediately, and there are simpler, more transparent ways to get the same thing done.
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