Keynote for the WASABI workshop at the 2013 ISWC conference in Sydney, Australia.

1. semantic web
in enterprise
an agile startup perspective
Jeen Broekstra
jeen.broekstra@insightng.com
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2. InsightNG
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4. Agile development
• Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
• Working software
over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
• Responding to change
over following a plan
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6. choosing semantic web
“Well, we’re creating graphs,
and RDF is graphs,
so let’s use RDF.”
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7. expected benefits
• quick integration of heterogeneous data
sources
• flexible modeling of relevant information
• powerful querying capabilities
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8. flexible data integration
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9. screenshot dbpedia
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12. SW + Agile: a natural fit
• flexibility
• pay-as-you-go data integration
• self-documenting
• the model is the documentation
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13. Pitching the SW
• (most) businesses do not care about
Linked Data or Open Data or being able to
reason with data
• (most) businesses do care about building
products their users want; and what the
user wants can change rapidly
• we should present our solutions in terms
of their cares and needs
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14. Take home message
• agile methods and SW tech are natural
partners in crime
• pitching SW tech should focus on its
flexibility and its fit with agile principles
• Openness will follow
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