DKG talk - On the broad applicability of Semantic Web technologies by Ora Lassila - 07/12 18.00CET

Dear all,

after the very successful panel on "20 years into ISWC: What's next beyond
Knowledge Graphs?", the Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) COST Action
[1,2] organizes a talk series in collaboration with SWSA [3] on aspects
related to the Semantic Web research. On *Tuesday 7th December at 18.00 CET**
Ora Lassila will give a talk "On the broad applicability of Semantic Web
technologies". I include the talk's abstract here but you can also find
more information as well as the link to the online stream before the talk
starts at https://cost-dkg.eu/talks.

Ora Lassila: "On the broad applicability of Semantic Web technologies"
About the talk: The Semantic Web, despite how it was originally advertised,
was not a replacement for the World Wide Web, nor was it really knowledge
representation (KR) solely for the Web. Rather, the Semantic Web is KR
using Web technologies. The different technologies and standards of the
Semantic Web have broad applicability in many areas distinctly outside of
what we consider to be the “Web”. The DAML-S (later OWL-S) effort was one
such example: apply ontologies to the problem of describing the semantics
of functionality and services (in this case Web services, but the concept
was more general). While the effort may not have been successful in the
long term, it was an early example of the application of Semantic Web
technologies and approaches to a wide variety of use cases and domains.
These include agent-based computing, ubiquitous computing,
context-awareness, policies, privacy, enterprise knowledge graphs, and many
others. But there is still an even bigger role for Semantic Web
technologies: Modern enterprise data practice is messy, with daunting
problems such as data integration, elimination of “data silos”, and
alignment of semantics. This “messiness” will be perpetuated until we have
a practical unifying logical representation for data and semantics, and the
promise of Semantic Web is that it could be this representation.

Kind regards,
Anastasia

[1] https://cost-dkg.eu/
[2] https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19134
[3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/
* Tue Dec 7th 2021 at 12:00 (EST) / Wed Dec 8th 2021 at 1:00 (CST)

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