WaSABi 2013 - Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice

The workshop organizer team believes that an open dialog between research and industry would be beneficial and aims at a discussion in terms of best practices for enabling better market access. The workshop will elicitate a set of best practices for the development and deployment of semantic technologies. So far we have identified but are not limited to the following areas: - The current disruptiveness of Semantic Web technology: past investments, time-to-market and compatibility with connected systems need to be considered. This raises concerns with new technologies ? “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”, as an old saying goes ? and making radical changes. - The lack of architectural modelling approaches using Semantic Web technology: A successful tool stack for semantic technology development has not yet emerged, nor are there recommended system architectures for developing and deploying ontology- and RDF-backed applications. Does the traditional three tier architecture suffice, or are other structures required? - The existing gaps between academic research, applied research and industrial research and development. - Insecurity regarding which vocabularies, standards, and technologies will survive in the marketplace and are worth betting on and investing in. They might even be revised from time to time which cause difficulties in distributed environments like the W3. - The lack of knowledge among laymen regarding suitable and scalable workflows for large amounts of semantic data. For instance, how much reasoning should take place at load time, and how much at query time? Should federated queries be used, or should data be batch imported and cached locally? - The lack of coordination processes and routines in a distributed knowledge/data landscape. Can a user or company trust that the data they rely on, which is provided by another party, will be of sufficient quality? Can data quality SLAs be established? How is the value of data to be calculated, and who is to pay who for what? - The lack of knowledge among laymen regarding comparative strengths and weaknesses of competing semantic technologies. Which reasoner is best for which type of use case? Which triple store? Is there any one such tool which is good enough in most cases to be a reasonable general recommendation?
The goals
The Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice is intended to close the gap between the industry tracks and research tracks at ISWC2013. Topics for presentation and discussion at the workshop include both technical and usage-oriented issues. They include everything that helps shortening development and deployment time for an academic or a practitioner, wishing to work with semantic technologies. Relevant topics include:
Surveys or case studies on Semantic Web technology in enterprise systems
Comparative studies on the evolution of Semantic Web adoption
Semantic systems and architectures of methodologies for industrial challenges
Semantic Web based implementations and design patterns for enterprise systems
Enterprise platforms using Semantic Web technology as part of the workflow
Architectural overviews for Semantic Web systems
Design patterns for semantic technology architectures and algorithms
System development methods as applied to semantic technologies
Semantic toolkits for enterprise applications
Surveys on identified best practices based on Semantic Web technology