What the RDF? ... Firsthand perspectives from Semantic Technology in Action

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Who attended

Alex Ingle

alfons haffmans

Anand Sahasram

Barney Lehrer

Bernardo Rodriguez

Bert Picot

bob p

Brad Arlett

Bruce Esrig

carol

Charles Yoo

Chick Foxgrover

Chris Smith

Christine Connors

Christine McGee

Cristina Mota

David G

david jensen

Eric Hoffer

Gil

Heather Edwards

Hiro

James Quacinella

Jim Daraio

Jim Hall

Juan C Rodriguez

Jun Yoon

karan

Kevin P. Tyson

Liz

Lynn

Marc Ehrig

Marc Hadfield

Marco Neumann

Marcus Trevisani

Maria

Maria C. Flores

Mario Soave

Matt Piekarczyk

Michael Mayer

Michal

Michel Biezunski

Mike Haley

odoncaoa

Paul Yurt

Phillip

Rachel Lovinger

Rachel Lurie

Ralph Warren

ram

Raman

Robert Kost

Robert LaMarca

Roger

S. A. Batla

Stanton Teters

Stuart Sim

Timothy Gill

william

Yoav Caspi

Semantic technologies promise to change the landscape of the web and enhance the user experience. Like many evolving technologies, there remains a gap between theory and practice.

We’ll share our experience developing enterprise and consumer facing semantic search applications from three perspectives: Content and user experience, knowledge engineering and technology.

Speakers: Chris Smith, Samir Batla and Aileen Gemma Fedullo

Topic Breakouts:

Content and User Experience (Chris)

• Challenges in content
• The user perspective Do they “get it?” What do they “want”?

Knowledge Engineering (Batla)

• Practical ontology and taxonomy development
• Data quality and its impact

Slides

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Technology (Chris)

• What worked, what didn’t for our use cases.
• Flexibility vs. Performance
• The Annotation Problem
• Inference - practical or necessary

Video reference

As an introduction to logic based reasoning - The Monty Python way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

Impressions