Semantic Web: Commercial Opportunities and Prospects

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Semantic Web Commercial Opportunities and
Prospects

• John Davies
• Head of Next Generation Web, BT

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Todays Web is

• A place where
• computers do the presentation (easy) and
• people do the linking and interpreting (hard).
• Why not get computers to do more of the hard
  work?

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Semantic Web

• Todays web
• Machine-to-human emphasis on presentation
• Semantic web vision
• an extension of the current web in which
  information is given well-defined meaning (Tim
  Berners-Lee)
• making web-based information machine-processable
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• also rules (reasoning business logic conflict
  detection)
• ontologies provide the domain models for
  annotation

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Next Generation Web(s) will be

• Personalised
• context-aware current activity, interests,
  location
• seamless knowledge delivery
• On demand
• interoperability of services via SWS
• utility computing virtual enterprise networks
• Ubiquitous
• Access via multiple devices
• Device independence via CC/PP (RDF ontology)
• Semantic
• Ontologies and metadata
• Seamless access to heterogeneous data sources

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Application Areas

• Information Integration Interoperability
• Knowledge Information Management
• Semantic Web Services
• Next Generation OSS

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Agenda

• Morning
• Suppliers Users
• Lunchtime
• Demos in Lomond Suite (Level 0)
• Afternoon
• EU research results and directions
• Research projects and their application
• Independent perspectives from
• Analyst community
• Investment Community