SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY WP1.4

A series of presentations to industrial associations, public institutions and major IT players will be organized to show the value of semantic web technologies. The aim is to create awareness on how, practically such technologies could help organizations deliver new products and services and create new business value.
The goal of this document is to make a synthesis regarding the practices of semantic web technologies. Our approach is oriented toward 3 main complementary directions. The first aims at providing feedback on the opinions and the feeling of a group practitioners and researchers of semantic web technologies. The methodology is ased on a "semi-closed" multiple choice online questionnaire. The results allow us to estimate the level of consensus of the community on concepts, methodologies and practices related to the Semantic Web. The second direction aims to survey present and past initiatives related to best practices. Basically, this part is a synthesis of the effort of the W3C SWBP (Semantic Web Best Practices) that have a major involvement in this field. In the third part, we investigate the practices in concrete developments. The field we studied is related to human language technologies. Starting from 4 case studies, we extract hints of useful practices that could help in the context of the Semantic Web. This combined approach represents a first contribution of the Knowledge Web project to discussion regarding best practices. We shall see that, even if it is not always possible to find common approaches or a consensus, there are several proposals to clarify the practices. One of our major recommendations is to accentuate the effort in education initiatives in order to make Semantic Web technologies usable for a large majority.



Deliverable 1.4.2V2/ WP 1.4 Success Stories and Best Practices.

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