- From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:29:06 +0100
- To: Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@sti2.at>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Dieter >>>, I think the reason may be simple. Their potential >>> customers do not (yet?) find them through search on the semantic web. If that's the case, then it should not be that difficult to address a bit of a knowledge infusion, a few intuitive high level interfaces and applications that let people perform it's true however that giving away knowledge may sometime conflict with commercial logic of trying to sell knowledge products leveraging on the market need for knowledge (a bit circular), we may have to study the business/economic model of the knowledge industry as a whole, then we may be looking at a much scarier beast :-) John D >>>>At the Open University we have data.open.ac.uk, but, a) hardly any other universities have >>>>this even those who are leaders in SW, and b) its something we could have done several >>>>years ago. Hopefully it's never too late to put something right :-) especially the relatively trivial bits .... best P
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