Re: results of Semantic Web application survey available

Benjamin,

very interesting!

Did you also try to find out which of these applications are more than
just research prototypes and are also deployed for real use, at least in
a prototypical phase? Certainly not all of them are (these projects are
very often bound to somebody's PhD, and the project stops once the
funding runs out and/or the PhD is finished).

The reason I am asking is that we are collecting use cases and case
studies for the SWEO:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/

but our goal is to use these to convince companies, investors, big
institutions, etc, that the SW can give them a technology where they can
either make money or (say, for a government institution) they can
significantly improve their operations. In this setting a purely
university project does not really fly unless really deployed (and can
even backfire; one of the messages that one still gets is that the SW is
 purely an academic project of no interest for industry...)

So: do you think any entry of those would be suitable for that?

Thanks a lot

Ivan

Danny Ayers wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Benjamin Heitmann <benjamin.heitmann@deri.org>
> Date: 03-Sep-2007 15:53
> Subject: For your weekly Talis Semantic Web links collection: results
> of Semantic Web application survey available
> To: danny.ayers@gmail.com
> 
> 
> Hello, I'm a master student at DERI Galway, working with Eyal Oren,
> and I have done a survey of the participants of
> 
> * the previous Semantic Web application challenges
> * the previous Scripting for the Semantic Web challenges
> 
> The collection of the data about the projects has been finished, and
> the authors of the papers of the various projects had about 4 weeks
> of time to correct and validate the details of their project.
> 
> You can look at the results of the survey here: http://
> www.activerdf.org/survey/
> 
> Survey results presented using Exhibit:
> http://www.activerdf.org/survey/survey_results.html
> 
> Details about the survey check list:
> http://www.activerdf.org/survey/survey_properties.html
> 
> Slides explaining the motivation, methodology and current results of
> my master thesis are are available at http://www.slideshare.net/
> metaman/transitioning-web-application-frameworks-towards-the-semantic-
> web-master-thesis-progress-report/
> 
> 
> Please forward this email to anybody who might also be interested in it.
> 
> I am also looking forward to (critical) feedback about the survey.
> 
> cheers, Benjamin Heitmann.
> 
> 
> 

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