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This presentation discusses the current activities in Semantic Web research, including foundational research, algorithms, tools, toolkits, frameworks, and methodologies for federated deployment. It also explores the challenges and solutions in capturing, managing, mapping, searching, reasoning with, and distributing knowledge. Interdisciplinary approaches in economics, organizational studies, linguistics, machine learning, multimedia analysis, and software engineering are highlighted, along with application domains such as data integration in life sciences, GIS, and procurement, reasoning in science and enterprise, and modeling in science and multimedia production. The presentation concludes by acknowledging the progress made in solving certain problems, but emphasizes the need for further work in areas such as semantic web usability, scalability, decentralization and interoperability, and situatedness.
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EC Semantic Web ResearchCurrent Activities Horst Forster European Commission DG Information Society and Media Directorate E « Content » WWW2006 Conference, Edinburgh, 24 May 2006 WWW2006 24 May 2006
Range of EC support • Foundational research • Algorithms • Tools • Toolkits • Frameworks • Federated deployment • Methodologies • Validation WWW2006 24 May 2006
Lifecyclesandintegration • Knowledge is expensive to • Capture • Manage • Map • Search • Reason with • Distribute WWW2006 24 May 2006
Interdisciplinarity • Economics, organisational studies • Linguistics • Machine learning • Multimedia analysis • Software engineering WWW2006 24 May 2006
Application domains • Knowledge is expensive but ignorance more so: • Data integration in lifesciences, GIS, procurement • Reasoning in science, enterprise • Modelling in science, multimedia production WWW2006 24 May 2006
Some problems solved, many still open • Almost solved • Information extraction for restricted domains • Standards and basic infrastructure • Much more work needed • Semantic Web usability • Scalability • Decentralisation and interoperability • Situatedness WWW2006 24 May 2006