Semantic Futures slide-5

Academic Efforts are Important

Because industry is too fast and short-sighted.

I support

old successes like OWL-S/RDF/RDF-S

new work like WSMO and SAWSDL

Great news that Aduna, Altova, Ontoprise, and TopQuadrant are commercial companies,
and that Oracle is building RDF databases.
And we academics have better tools and better theory for ontologies.
Well-done.

But we need either to be industrially-relevant or come up with an amazing application.

So let's look at the barriers to industrial relevance.