[ontology-summit] Way to mention semantic web

[Amanda Vizedom <amanda.vizedom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fabian,

For your editorial assessment / pruning / improvement, here is a pass at what I suggested in discussion and chat regarding how to mention the Semantic Web: 

The growth of projects based in Semantic Web approaches and technologies is a significant source of demand for trained ontologists.  Additional demand comes from developments such as the Linked Open Data movement, Semantic Services, Semantic Enterprise and other areas of development arising in part from the Semantic Web's history and technology stack.  At the same time, a variety of ontology-based approaches, loosely grouped as Semantic Interoperability have come to the fore as potential solutions to critical Interoperability problems. Efforts and directives to increase Transparency, within and across organizations, are also increasingly recognized to be areas in which semantic technologies -- specifically, technologies that incorporate and rely on ontologies -- can help. 

In each of these cases, the success of the efforts mentioned depends on the availability of well-trained ontologists, capable of designing and building the needed ontologies and co-designing the integration of the ontologies with the overall architectures. Without well-rounded ontologists, Semantic Web projects, Semantic SOA, Semantic Interoperability, and others face the danger of making errors that ontology as a discipline learned ten or twenty years ago, and so a very real danger of project failure. Without well-trained ontologists who can recognized and avoid such early errors, many otherwise unnecessary failures seem likely.

Currently, however, many Semantic Web and related projects are working without knowledge of ontology principles and history. Even if those leading such efforts want to do otherwise, they do not know how to find the ontologists they need. There is no reliable way for such projects to distinguish qualified ontologists from those who have simply claimed the title, and no reliable way for such projects and existing qualified ontologists to find each other. 

Best, 
Amanda

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