Can Semantic Web be Made to Flourish?

Wood, David; Masahide, Kanzaki; Bjelogrlic, Zavisa; Hendler, Jim; Hyland, Bernadette

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Wood, David; Masahide, Kanzaki; Bjelogrlic, Zavisa; Hendler, Jim; Hyland, Bernadette

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2005-01-01

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http://archive.tw.rpi.edu/media/latest/www2005CanSemanticWebBeMadeToFlourish.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13015/4776

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This panel's objective will be to discuss whether the Semantic Web can be made to grow in a "viral" manner, like the World Wide Web did in the early 1990s. The scope of the discussion will include efforts by the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Best Practices & Deployment Working Group to identify and publish best practices of Semantic Web practitioners, and the barriers to adoption of those practices by a wider community. The concept of “best practices” as it applies to a distributed, diverse and partially-defined Semantic Web will be discussed and its relevance debated. Specifically, panelists will discuss the capability of standards bodies, commercial companies and early adopters to create a viral technology.;