The Semantic Web programme aims to replace the “Web of Documents” with the “Web of Data”, thus extending the classical programme of knowledge representation. In contrast, a corpus-linguistic inspired Web Semantics situates knowledge within texts and the documents that convey them. Data cannot therefore be abstracted without losing their contextual value and relevance. This leads to a recontextualisation of the notion of “data” and a rethinking of the relationship between data and metadata.