Semantic Web at Work?
Uche Ogbuji wrote a good article on XML.com here is a summary: “I’m still getting my Weblogger profile here updated, but this year I transitioned from one company I co-founded to another. Zepheira provides data architecture solutions, with a focus on semantic technology. I was early on the Semantic Web bandwagon, and I almost fell off at one point because I felt the useful, modest ideas at the core had been overrun by an academic brand of technological megalomania. This year I felt the timing was right to not only renew my interest in the technology, but to stake my livelihood on it. Part of it was timing: I was starting to see the more useful underpinnings of semantic technology take hold in corporations. Part of it was people: I found a group of professionals who I believed were capable of building practical semantic technology solutions, and, more importantly, selling them.”
“One of those people, Eric Miller, former chair of the W3C Semantic Web Activity, is especially well known for describing the benefits of semantic technology in terms executives can appreciate, and he’s featured in a new InternetWeek article “The Semantic Web Goes to Work”. The article says: “You[’d] better figure out what the Semantic Web is and soon, because its concepts have graduated from academia and are starting to contribute to your competitor’s bottom line.”
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