Comments on: SemTech 2008 http://ivan-herman.name/2008/05/25/semtech-2008/ Sat, 12 May 2012 13:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frank van Harmelen http://ivan-herman.name/2008/05/25/semtech-2008/#comment-4779 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:57:09 +0000 http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-4779 Ivan, thanks for the very informative write-up! I’ve forwarded it to the blog of the LarKC project:
http://blog.larkc.eu/?p=81. (For the LarKC project, see http://www.larkc.eu ). Thanks again!

]]> By: LarKC weblog » Blog Archive » SemTech 2008 http://ivan-herman.name/2008/05/25/semtech-2008/#comment-4778 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:52:26 +0000 http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-4778 [...] A few weeks ago was SemTech’08, the annual Semantic Technologies conference, aimed at a commercial audience (both buyers and sellers). This year it was (again) larger than previous years (now over 1000, up from under 300 a few years ago). A good write-up of some of the highlights is at Ivan Herman’s  Blog. [...]

]]> By: daniela barbosa http://ivan-herman.name/2008/05/25/semtech-2008/#comment-4766 Thu, 29 May 2008 23:32:16 +0000 http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-4766 Ivan- it was great meeting you. Thanks for this write-up i will include it in the wrap-up post that i am writing for my collegues and clients who were unable to attend this year.
I managed to get the final keynote panel on Bringing SemTech Back to the Business on video and the SemTech conference folks have said it was ok for me to publish- so here is the URL http://blip.tv/file/933309

i will send you a separate email as well with my follow-ups.

-daniela

]]> By: David Scott Lewis http://ivan-herman.name/2008/05/25/semtech-2008/#comment-4764 Mon, 26 May 2008 16:36:16 +0000 http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-4764 It was a pleasure and honor to meet you and Jim: The highlight of the conference for me. A close second was meeting a lot of fellow Twinerians and Radarians whom I haven’t already met.

What disappointed me was that we couldn’t get any press to attend. None. Not even bloggers!! Not even with the offer of free logoware. ;-)

How many A-list bloggers live in Silicon Valley? Probably most. Also, a lot of Gartner analysts live in the area, and so do some other top industry analysts like Rob Enderle (you could throw a rock to his place from the Fairmont). But nobody showed up.

So, we have to assume that semweb is still viewed as a research endeavor. Further, the idea of a company even touting semweb may be unproductive, perhaps even counterproductive. In other words, it isn’t about what Twine or Powerset do using semweb, it’s about what they do relative to competitive offerings — regardless of the core tech.

I’ll be focusing more and more effort on my “Apps: On Semantic Web & Related Applications” (like intelligent agents and knowledge discovery) twine. Apps, quite frankly, are what it’s all about outside of academia. More apps are needed, as is more apps-centered experimentation and research.

See http://www.twine.com/twine/apps.

Cheers,

- David Scott Lewis

]]> By: Jim Hendler http://ivan-herman.name/2008/05/25/semtech-2008/#comment-4763 Mon, 26 May 2008 02:43:52 +0000 http://ivanherman.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-4763 Ivan – thanks for the mention – the slides are now publicly available at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/presentations/SemTech2008-2Towers.pdf — Jim H.

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