Artículo en MacWorld sobre el WWW2006
MacWorld publicó el martes 30 de mayo de 2006 un artículo titulado
"Semantic web 'ready to implement'", sobre el WWW 2006,
15th International World Wide Web Conference que tiene lugar del 23 al 26 de mayo de 2006 en Edimburgo,
Escocia, y en el que Richard Benjamins, Director de Innovación de iSOCO, participa en el panel
plenario junto a Tim Berners-Lee, Director del World Wide Web Consortium.
Extracto:
Hundreds of boffins are weaving together the internet's future at a meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland,
this week, poring over research papers and discussing ideas on how to organise the internet's growing mass of
data.
Much of the discussion is centered on the "semantic web", the term for how researchers believe
information on the web can be intelligently labelled, interpreted and linked through applications that can
draw relationships and discover buried information.
Computer scientists have grand visions for how the semantic web will help users cut to the core
information they are seeking. A few years ago, attaching keywords to web pages was seen as the way to make
orderly sense of data, but that is now increasingly viewed as inferior.
However, there is trepidation as to how this next version of the internet will develop, and if the
new ideas can be translated into applications and interfaces that are easy for users.
The semantic web concept can be applied to data held within the enterprises. But businesses are
concerned with how to label their data and ultimately their return on investment in semantic technologies.
In the long term, businesses need to realise that developing ontologies for data is an asset, said
Richard Benjamins, director of innovation and research and development at Intelligent Software Components
in Madrid.
Before semantic technology will progress, businesses will have to be convinced that ontologies are
manageable and affordable. "That perception does not exist yet", he said.
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Semantic web 'ready to implement'. Computer Weekly
