- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:59:26 -0400
- To: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
The following, from "Star rising for the Semantic Web" [1] by Edd Dumbill, captures something I also observed at the WWW conference-- not only was the overall sem web effort growing, but ontologies were brought up quite frequently in many talks and panels -- there is definitely a lot of interest in our work!! - JH >... Second, all the sources of data need to be able to name and >describe the various shapes their data can take. This is where the >semantics start to come in. The fancy word for such descriptions is >"ontologies" (practically a synonym for "schema", but that word is >somewhat overloaded by SQL and W3C XML Schema these days). The W3C's >WebOnt Working Group is charged with this piece of the puzzle, and >they're building on existing work such as DAML. As somebody remarked >to me, there were a surprisingly large number of papers focusing on >ontologies at the WWW2002 conference. There is a lot of practical >research work going on in the field. [1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1397 -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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