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A Decade in the Trenches of the Semantic Web
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content: Are We Losing the War? Was it Even the Right One? Download PDF Cinemaphiles will readily recognize Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon film of 1951. And, in the 1960s, one of the most popular book series was Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet. Both, each in its own way, tried to get at the question of what is truth by telling the same story from the perspective of different protagonists. Whether you saw this movie or read these books you know the punchline: the truth was very different depending on the point of view and experience -- including self-interest and delusion -- of each protagonist. All of us recognize this phenomenon of the blind men's view of the elephant. I have been making my living and working full time on the semantic Web and semantic technologies now for a full decade. So has my partner at Structured Dynamics, Fred Giasson. Others have certainly worked longer in this field. The original semantic Web article appeared in Scientific American in 2000 [1], and the foundational Resource Description Framework data model dates from 1999. Fred and I have our own views of what has gone on in the trenches of the semantic Web over this period. We thought a decade was a good point to look back, share what we've experienced, and discover where to point our next offensive thrusts. What Has Gone Well? The vision of the semantic Web in the Scientific American article painted a picture of globally interconnected data leveraged by agents or bots designed to make our lives easier and more automated. However, by the time that I got directly involved, nearly five years after standards first started to be published, Tim Berners-Lee and many leading proponents of RDF were beginning to shift focus to linked data. The agents, and automation, and ontologies of the initial vision were being downplayed in favor of effective means to publish and consume data based on RDF. In many ways, linked data resembled a re-branding. This break had been coming for a while, memorably captured …
encoded: Are We Losing the War? Was it Even the Right One? Download PDF Cinemaphiles will readily recognize Akira Kurosawa‘s Rashomon film of 1951. And, in the 1960s, one of the most popular book series was Lawrence Durrell‘s The Alexandria Quartet. Both, each in its own way, tried to get at the question of what is truth by telling the same story from the perspective of different protagonists. Whether you saw this movie or read these books you know the punchline: the truth was very different depending on the point of view and experience — including self-interest and delusion — of each protagonist. All of us recognize this phenomenon of the blind men’s view of the elephant. I have been making my living and working full time on the semantic Web and semantic technologies now for a full decade. So has my partner at Structured Dynamics, Fred Giasson. Others have certainly worked longer in this field. The original semantic Web article appeared in Scientific American in 2000 [1], and the foundational Resource Description Framework data model dates from 1999. Fred and I have our own views of what has gone on in the trenches of the semantic Web over this period. We thought a decade was a good point to look back, share what we’ve experienced, and discover where to point our next offensive thrusts. What Has Gone Well? The vision of the semantic Web in the Scientific American article painted a picture of globally interconnected data leveraged by agents or bots designed to make our lives easier and more automated. However, by the time that I got directly involved, nearly five years after standards first started to be published, Tim Berners-Lee and many leading proponents of RDF were beginning to shift focus to linked data. The agents, and automation, and ontologies of the initial vision were being downplayed in favor of effective means to publish and consume data based on RDF. In many ways, linked data resembled a re-branding. This break had been coming for a while, memorably captured by…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Artificial Intelligence
topic: Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence
topic: Linked Data
topic: Ontologies
topic: Open Semantic Framework
topic: Open Source
topic: Semantic Web
topic: Semantic Web Tools
topic: Structured Dynamics
topic: Structured Web
topic: UMBEL
topic: Web-oriented Architecture
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links to: Watson
links to: Siri
links to: Knowledge Graph
links to: SKOS
links to: OWL
links to: Solr
links to: triple stores
links to: DBpedia
links to: Library of Congress
links to: Eurostat
links to: The Getty
links to: Europeana
links to: OpenGLAM
links to: SPARQL
links to: Protégé
links to: Virtuoso
links to: Jena
links to: Sweet Tools
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links to: Open Semantic Framework
links to: documenting and explicating its use
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links to: RESTful
links to: virtual servers
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links to: artificial intelligence
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links to: Innovation, Information, Growth and Wealth
links to: Spring Dawns on Artificial Intelligence
links to: Seven Arguments for Semantic Technologies
links to: The Age of the Graph
links to: The Rationale for Semantic Technologies

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