Would it be possible if in a future blog entry you could talk about semantic approaches from an industry vertical perspective and also include what standards bodies such as ACORD (www.acord.org) and others need to do in order to embrace semantic approaches.
Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure I can. I approach the SemWeb from a very pure philosophical basis - the pragmatics comes from what's useful for me.
I think that we've got a bit of a problem with the SemWeb as it stands - it seems to be stuck in a cycle at the moment whereby it does everything, and at the same time does nothing. It's got a long way to go before I think it's really going to be useful for industry.
Once I've learnt more about RDF/SemWeb, I'll try and put up some business scenarios, but at the moment, I'll restrict it to something simple.
If businesses want to join the Semantic Web, make your data available. I don't know the details of the industry you linked to - insurance - but I can provide an example. Retail. Imagine if every shop in a city provided a full price and stock list dynamically updated in RDF format. That way, shopping goes from "I wonder whether this shop has what I need" to "show me all the places in central London who have a jacket available in size x and colour y, and sort them by how far they are from my current location". There is a long road that we have to go down until we get to that situation, but making the data available should be a good start down that road.
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I think that we've got a bit of a problem with the SemWeb as it stands - it seems to be stuck in a cycle at the moment whereby it does everything, and at the same time does nothing. It's got a long way to go before I think it's really going to be useful for industry.
Once I've learnt more about RDF/SemWeb, I'll try and put up some business scenarios, but at the moment, I'll restrict it to something simple.
If businesses want to join the Semantic Web, make your data available. I don't know the details of the industry you linked to - insurance - but I can provide an example. Retail. Imagine if every shop in a city provided a full price and stock list dynamically updated in RDF format. That way, shopping goes from "I wonder whether this shop has what I need" to "show me all the places in central London who have a jacket available in size x and colour y, and sort them by how far they are from my current location". There is a long road that we have to go down until we get to that situation, but making the data available should be a good start down that road.
