Hi Amanda, (01)
You might want to double check the terminology around Linked Data versus
Linked Open Data. There is a lot of semantic web activity specifically
under the heading of Linked Data and the #linkeddata hashtag, of which
Linked Open Data as I understand it is one particular initiative. I know
some of the people in the space are quite particular about terminology
and I would not want us to produce text that appears to either exclude
or ignore Linked Data. It has a huge amount of traction. (02)
The best people to check with about the precise terminology under Linked
Data would be Kingsley Idehen, Tommy Heath, Ian Davis, Georgi Kobilarov
or even Tim B-L himself. It is a very important movement within semantic
technology, indeed to many newcomers in that space it looks like the
whole of semantic technology (not a view I share, or that I would
ascribe to the thought leaders listed above). LOD is an application of
this approach. (03)
I would very much like to see people in the Linked Data community
exposed to a wider range of knowledge about ontologies and semantics
outside of the rather more technical LD domain. (04)
Mike (05)
Amanda Vizedom wrote:
> 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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