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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 22 April, 2009 EDITORIAL Barriers to the Semantic Web Dear Subscriber ! In our recent online survey, the Semantic Web Awareness Barometer 2009, we asked about barriers to the Semantic Web. Interestingly research-oriented participants argued that the lack of existing success stories inhibits the current roll out, while application-oriented participants stated that it is the corporate culture that will be the biggest obstacle for integrating Semantic Web technologies. This result is of high importance for planning Semantic Web-related outreach activities. It reveals that it is not the "sexy use" of the technology that drives its adoption but the pragmatic value that is generated by its application in often highly specific organisational settings. Knowing that some other company is using the SemWeb to solve problems might be interesting, but beside marketing purposes this information has very little pragmatic value for someone dealing with the (social / cultural / organisational) changes that semantic technologies bring along. Hence, it is the social acceptance that makes a technology flourish and not necessarily its superiority. With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES Chris Bizer: "Within the corporate market, there is interest in using Linked Data as a lightweight, pay-as-you-go data integration technology."
VOICES Markus Luczak-Rösch: "loomp can help journalists to manage their notes, interview logs, references, addresses, etc."
SWC UPDATE New Semantic Web seminars available!
SWC UPDATE Triplification Challenge 2009 - Call for Participation
MARKET SCAN BBC Taps Web 3.0 for New Music Site
MARKET SCAN Empolis, Attensity and Living-e join Forces to Become Attensity Group
MARKET SCAN Semantic web - snake oil for BI?
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Semantic Answer Engine True Knowledge Launches Platform for Developers
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Semantic Web Language Continues to Evolve with OWL 2
TECHNOLOGY SCAN TopQuadrant boosts semantic Web
BLOG SCAN Can You Automate Patent Processing?
BLOG SCAN Search 3.0: The Dark Side of Search 3.0
BLOG SCAN When Sensors and Social Networks Mix
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Semantic Web Awareness Barometer 2009 Between November 1, 2008 and January 22, 2009 the Semantic Web Company in cooperation with the Know Center Graz and the Corporate Semantic Web Working Group of Freie Universität Berlin conducted an online survey on experiences with and expectations towards Semantic Web technologies. Download the report and the data set for free!
Event Tip Leipziger Semantic Web Tag Wednesday, 29. April 2009, leipzig / Germany Together with the companies Netresearch, Business Intelligence GmbH and Ebrosia the University of Leipzig is working to implement social-semantic applications into Intranets, the Internet and E-Commerce. At the Semantic Web Day first results will be presented.
Event Tip ESWC2009: 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference Sunday, 31. May 2009 to Thursday, 04. June 2009, Criti / Greece The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form.
Event Tip I-Know - 10th Int. Conference on Knowledge Technologies Wednesday, 02. September 2009 to Friday, 04. September 2009, Graz / Austria I-KNOW '09 brings together international researchers (English speaking scientific part) and practitioners (German speaking industry part, Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Opening and closing keynotes, an international cooperation-event and a conference-wide exhibition complete the I-KNOW conference program. I-KNOW '09 will be held concurrently with I-SEMANTICS '09 - International Conference on Semantic Systems..
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So far little awareness exists about the commercial opportunities
of linked data. Andreas Blumauer (SWC) talked to Chris Bizer, mastermind
behind the DB-Pedia project and advocate of the linking open data
philosophy, about the emerging market for deep web applications,
its value for corporate purposes, and the need for information accountability
and privacy awareness.
Searching for a killer application for the Semantic Web a young
research team from FU Berlin developed loomp, a multifacetted annotation
tool for various information types, workflows and media channels.
Tassilo Pellegrini (SWC) talked to project leader Markus Luczak-Rösch
about motives behind and prospects for a Corporate Semantic Web
leveraged by loomp.
On May 6 & 7, 2009 we offer new seminars for Semantic Web newbies.
The seminars are designed for people who search for a compact and
comprehensive entry into the topics Web 2.0, Social Web and Semantic
Web. A strong emphasis will be on the corporate use of social software
and semantic web technologies.
A new music service from the British broadcaster employs cutting-edge
semantic Web technology that makes searching and linking easier
The BBC's recently launched semantic web music project could indicate
the future direction of the corporation's online presence. The public
beta of the BBC Music website has been recently relaunched incorporating
semantic web technology in its artist pages resource.
Empolis GmbH (Gütersloh), former arvato-Bertelsmann subsidiary,
Attensity Corporation (Palo Alto, Calif., USA) and Living-e AG (Karlsruhe)
today announced they have united to form the Attensity Group. This
move makes Attensity Group a worldwide market leader in the field
of semantic technologies. The new company will employ 300 people
worldwide and expects to generate revenues of approx. USD 50 million
in 2009.
There's an increased expectation that business intelligence (BI)
and analytic tools will better understand individual user needs
and tap into an organisation's collective intelligence to speed
up and enhance corporate decision-making. Can the principles of
a semantic web help to practically address the current limitations
of BI beyond this and achieve the vision of BI 2.0 - or is this
just a new snake oil devised from academic debates? While we believe
it's too early to start to define a real market for semantic BI,
the integration of semantics into BI and analytics is an opportunity
waiting to happen.
True Knowledge, a search company pioneering a new approach to natural
language search, today announces the launch of the True Knowledge
Application Platform. Developers looking for semantic search capabilities
can now utilize True Knowledge’s natural language query processing
functionality in third-party applications and web sites to provide
accurate and direct answers to end users.
The World Wide Web Consortium's OWL (Web Ontology Language) Working
Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the "OWL
2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." This document is
the first in an exciting thirteen volume escapade through the syntaxes,
sub-languages, along with other details behind OWL 2 and its differences
from OWL 1.
Focusing on development of semantic Web applications, TopQuadrant
introduced on Monday a graphical assembly toolkit and a language
for what the company calls a new class of applications that dynamically
evolve and adapt to business changes. The company announced TopBraid
Suite 3.0, featuring a graphical assembly toolkit for dynamically
configuring semantic Web applications using pre-built components.
The suite also supports SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation), which
is a semantic Web language developed by TopQuadrant with an object-oriented
rule model to link data and domain models, and offers RDF (Resource
Definition Framework) libraries for SPARQL users to define business
rules for semantic Web applications.
One of the big complaints with the current patent system is the
amount of time it takes for an application to actually go through
the process of approval. Supporters of the patent system often insist
that the "solution" is to fund the Patent Office with
more money so it can hire a lot more examiners. Of course, this
suggests that the problem is a linear one, and it can be fixed by
just throwing money and bodies at the problem -- when there's little
evidence that's the case.
For every day there is a night, for every Two-face a Harvey Dent,
for every Abbott a Costello. We have been talking about Search 3.0
for a while now – the convergence of social media and search
that is happening as we speak (or blog, or tweet, or however you
are reaching this post). Search 3.0 is neither good nor bad, it
simply is. However there is a dark side to it that can have consequences
for brands large and small.
In recent posts we reviewed an MIT experiment called WikiCity, that
gathered real-time location data from mobile phones in Rome and
graphically mapped trends from it. We then looked at a more commercial
product doing similar real-time location data analysis, called Citysense.
That product aims to let users find the most popular night spots
in San Francisco and the most efficient ways to get to them. The
next stage of projects/products such as Wikicity and Citysense will
be to enable users to social network, using data from sensors as
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