The Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG aims to bridge the gap
between the Semantic Web and the IAOA communities. This SIG's
goals are to support communication and collaboration and to
promote the use of applied ontology, with our colleagues in the
Semantic Web (including Linked Data) community. In addition, we
want to better understand how the Semantic Web community’s
problem spaces impact applied ontology. (We view applied
ontology as using ontological analysis methods and reasoning to
address business problems.)
Often the two communities think that they have nothing in
common, whereas we believe that there is much in common -
including goals, technologies, and interest in well-engineered
ontologies. Many of us in IAOA promote and use Semantic Web
technologies. Similarly, many in the Semantic Web community
advocate more rigorous and principled ontologies (based on
ontological analysis), and use semantic technologies and
reasoning to address issues when dealing with vast amounts of
heterogeneous data on the Web. Our goal is to assist each side
in bringing their perspectives to the table.
In order to promote communication, this SIG is event-focused.
We are concentrating on bringing together the individuals,
techniques and technologies of both communities. Our activities
focus on sponsoring joint workshops, collaborative authoring of
journal articles across the communities, and hosting related
activities such as participation in summer schools in both
communities, and joint tutorials which would help build bridges.
