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Semantic Web Education and Outreach

14 Mar 2007

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Regrets
Uldis_Bojars, Karen_Myers, Yue_Pan, Melli_Annamalai, Ina_O'Murchu, Ivan_Hermann
Chair
Susie
Scribe
LeeF, wing

Contents


 

 

<bengee> zaki, P9 is bengee

<LeeF> ScribeNick: LeeF

European Semantic Technologies Conference collateral

<scribe> ScribeNick: wing

susie: maybe it should be a general SW flyer
... can be used at other events too
... start with general introduction, then talk about application areas, then highlight brief examples. short and high-level.

martind: should it include a use case?

susie: look at FAQ, list of existing use cases for ideas

dewinger: something that is fluffy and looks nice?

orri: how about a slogan?

<martind> +1

orri: along the lines of integrating content, making new things possible

<kjetilk> sorry, skype doesn't want my money... :-(

<scribe> ACTION: dewinger to put together a first draft of the flyer [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/03/14-SWEO-minutes.html#action01]

<PaulaP> I'm on vacation between 22.03- 05.04.2007

SWEO logo

<bengee> http://bnode.org/media/2007/03/13/sweo_logo_scribblings_2007_03_13.gif

<bengee> http://bnode.org/media/2007/03/10/sweo_logo_scribblings_2007_03_10.gif

<kjetilk> please let me know when the community projects are on the agenda, and I will attempt to call using a regular phone

<PaulaP> +1 to have a logo

bengee: will try to create a few more variations, welcome feedback

<Susie> Kjetil, could you dial in at 10.40am ET

Use case updates

susie: draft of oracle and siderean written, approved by oracle pr, waiting for approval from siderean
... ordnance survey use case received

<bengee> ACTION: bengee to create some additional logo variations for further discussion [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/03/14-SWEO-minutes.html#action02]

thanks, bengee

<bengee> :)

<kjetilk> Susie: ok

susie: several deadlines for submission these few days
... discussing use case format with karen (and ivan)

survey

<LeeF> wing: Met with Karen and looked at survey data once more (esp. textual responses)

<LeeF> ... "describe the semantic web to your manager" - in retrospect the question was confusing because some people have technical managers

Describe SW to your manager.

29 web-based

17 reasoning

16 meaningful data

14 data representation

14 data integration

13 machine understanding

9 standards

9 dataweb

8 automatic processing

7 search

5 data exchange

4 emerging

3 reduce ambiguity

2 self describing data

2 ontology driven

2 km

2 deals with data overload

2 enhanceddecisionsupport

1 xml

1 taxonomy

1 tagging

1 structured data

1 efficient

<LeeF> wing: many people see the Semantic Web as an extension of the current Web and something that has to be built on top of existing Web pages

<LeeF> ... also many people look towards reasoning and agents as key to SW

<LeeF> ... also interesting was the disadvantages

Disadvantages

9 no employees with skills

7 no industrial strength offerings

7 immaturity

6 complicated

5 slow adoption

4 large upfront investment

3 too academic

3 not tangible

2 poor performance

2 no critical mass

1 standards too broad

1 security

1 owl overhyped

1 ontologies hard to build

1 no standards

1 none

1 no killer app

1 no funding

1 need t combine business and it

<PaulaP> bye

<kjetilk> bye!

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: bengee to create some additional logo variations for further discussion [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/03/14-SWEO-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: dewinger to put together a first draft of the flyer [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/03/14-SWEO-minutes.html#action01]
 
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