Semantic Code Camp Presentation

Semantic Code Camp: “ Semantic Technology in Business?” @danielabarbosa

Professional

The World of News Corporation

Evangelist

A Social Creature

I am no different then you But i am not a Programmer- I have teams that do that!

Web 1.0 Document Web

Web 2.0 Social Web

The Next Web Personal Web (but who I am?)

The ability to connect to, control, share and remix data between trusted applications

Getting Overload Information Overload Relevancy Overload What’s important to me right now

Threads: Information, People, and Connections News Commentary Analysis The Discussion Actions Prioritized Event External - Wires, Press, Web/Blogs Analyst Reports, Fundamentals, Gov. Internal, Experts, Market, Competitive Who Needs? What Info? What Format? Client contact Business Development Crisis Management

Powering Tomorrow’s ‘Instant Knowledge’
A technical Pain Point that the Semantic Web technologies solves for businesses is that it provides a universal and powerful way to link data from anywhere to anything…

But there are ‘issues’ to overcome
Security
User rights for accessing data/privacy settings
Trust
And many more, with many unique to each business

Reusable, Open Source- Measurement Units Ontology The Event Ontology FOAF How do we get Enterprises to Trust and Contribute?

The LOD “cloud”, May 2007 May 12, 2009

The LOD “cloud”, March 2008 May 12, 2009

The LOD “cloud”, September 2008 May 12, 2009

The LOD “cloud”, March 2009 May 12, 2009

Best practices for starting out
Find
Begin with existing schema, vocabularies and datasets.
Re-Use
Use or transform an existing taxonomy or thesaurus.
Use, add or remove elements from an existing schema for local use.
Linked Data
Open Data
Licensed Data
Publish
Publicly or privately, make your work available to your intended community or you won’t get to linked data.
Engage subject matter experts
Editorial, Technical and Knowledge Domain

Same as last year?
Enterprise Semantic Web projects are beginning to move beyond proofs of concept:
Advertising
Biomedical
Business process management
Chemistry
Cloud computing
Digital asset management
Disaster preparedness
E-commerce
and more...

However….People with appropriate skill sets for designing & building Semantic Web solutions are not widely available.

A & Qs

Question
What do you think are the biggest challenges to starting to use the Semantic Web / Semantic Technologies in the enterprise?
Technology-based ?
Business value/opportunity-based ?
Other ?

Question
If approaches to Semantic web are being discussed in your business who are they being driven by?
Executives (top down)?
Technologists ?
Users ?
Other ?

Reusable, Open Source- Measurement Units Ontology The Event Ontology FOAF How do we get Enterprises to Trust and Contribute?

@danielabarbosa
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Semantic Code Camp Presentation

by daniela barbosa on Jun 14, 2009

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