How would people feel about developing a media
kit as a follow up to this year's ontology summit?
While there some articles about the semantic web or specific
AI technologies have appeared in the (business and technology)
press, the term ontology has not really penetrated popular
consciousness in a meaningful way. A vital step in expanding the
role of ontology in industry is to familiarize the broader
background of the audience, so it is not even an issue to get
glazed looks or have to continually run through basic
background. The least that can be done is to facilitate the
reporting of ontology developments - especially if it is picking
up steam.
As it would apply to the summit, what is newsworthy is the
readiness and potential for ontology for industry, as a point of
interest to the business and technology press. Ontology is
around you, and industry is realizing its value in greater
numbers - you should find out what all the fuss is about.
To wit, outlets such as:
among others report on similar developments in other
technologies, or simply even published papers. (They often also
run articles that are little more than verbatim copies of press
releases from a university or corporation.)
It should be relatively straightforward to provide the
requisite material to write a story about the upcoming, emerging
wave of ontology (not just semweb) based solutions
in industry. What we could provide in such a press kit could
include relevant background such as:
- the communique itself
- brief about the summit (why, what happened)
- brief about ontology itself (why all the fuss)
- brief about the community (i.e. role of ontolog and social
networking in bringing people together)
- links to successful use cases
- summary of some of the more exciting, promising potential
in cutting edge research
Optionally, we might even provide a press release
demonstrating a possible story that could be told with this
information. If there is video being taken at the summit, and
if the production values are adequate, the video can be used as
supplementary material (or rather, edited 5 minute spurts
summarizing key points).
Before developing this idea further on this forum - is there
interest and a willingness to commit some time/effort to develop
and pursue such an add-on?
Best,
Ali
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