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By: Steven Forth

Steven Forth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:28:06 +0000

The organizers told me that attendance was actually up by more than 20% to about 1,300. Not bad given the economy. I quite agree that the search panel was a bit of a damp squib. I am not sure that the next generation of compelling applications will come out of search at all, though I am a big fan of what Yahoo is trying to do. Google seems to be caught in the trap of its own success – it can only take serious things it can see doing at webscale, LOD (Linked Open Data) and other semantic apps may be more local and specific opportunities. The Semantic MediaWiki sessions were usful to me.

By: Ivan Herman

Ivan Herman — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:15:39 +0000

Hi Bob,

Unfortunately, the slides are not public (yet?). Participants have received a CD with the slides, that is what I have. Maybe if many people ask, then the slides will be put into the public (although I could see a problem in having to ask the permission from all speakers which is always more difficult after the event).

By: Bob DuCharme

Bob DuCharme — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:02:07 +0000

Hi Ivan,

I really like the idea that linked data technology should make it easier for us to create our own SIRI-like apps. SIRI is built on the APIs of other services; centralized documentation of all those APIs would be very cool. I guess part of their added value is the reliability that comes from them working out QOS agreements with those vendors, but still, I’d rather have the set of building block than a finished toy that may or may not fit my needs.

>Unfortunately, I had to skip Peter Mika’s presentation on
>the SearchMonkey experiences, I will have to look at his slides

I looked around on http://www.semantic-conference.com but couldn’t find any links to slides. Are these publicly available?

thanks,

Bob