http://semantic-technology-companies.sti2.at/

Dear all,

thanks to your overwhelming input it took a little bit longer than 
planned to come
back to you. What a difference to 1998 were the list would have had one entry.
Meanwhile, Carmen and I have collected your input and we would now 
like to start
phase two of the exercise.

In phase one we were merely interested in data. In phase two we ask for your
imagination, knowledge, and expertise. Up to now we collected mostly a plain
list of companies described by:
	- name
	- logo
	- URI of their web site
	- short abstract

On the one hand, this may be a good point to start from. On the other hand,
there may more useful information to collect. Our questions are:

	1) Is there a need to collect more information centrally or are we basically
	done?

	2) Is there a very small number of additional properties we should collect?
	Maybe country of residence (also shown in google maps) may be an important
	further attribute?

	3a) Is there a larger number of properties that would be worthwhile 
to collect?
	Or even a need for properties than can be flexible introduced, extended, and
	customized?

	3b) In this case, we would also need a more decentralized 
infrastructure (wiki?)
	and Wikipedia-like process model to update the content?

	3c) Instead of reinventing the wheels, should we reuse existing web sites
	such as CrunchBase [1] (or others we are not aware of?) to implement the info
	on ST companies ? [2]

And yes, when we will have processed phase 2 there will be phase 3 
were we need help
from the gourmets of dog food.

Thank you for your responses,


Carmen and Dieter


	[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/
	[2] Should we at least look for a better URI of the current web site?


-- 
Dieter Fensel
Director STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/
phone: +43-512-507-6488/5, fax: +43-512-507-9872

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