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Re: [ontology-summit] Way to mention semantic web

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From: Mike Bennett <mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:58:55 +0000
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Cool. I don't this is picked up the latest edit yet (Revision 84)    (01)

Mike    (02)

Amanda Vizedom wrote:
> Good catch, Mike.  I was being sloppy and conflating to the one I find 
> most exciting. :-)
>
> I agree that Linked Data is more general and should be the terminology 
> incorporated.  There's no reason to call out the Open subspecies here.
>
> Amanda
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:09, Mike Bennett <mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Amanda,
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     Mike
>
>     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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