Transcript Semantic Web Pilot Program Elements

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~ Semantic Web Pilot Program Elements ~
Presented by
Cola Atkinson – BBN
07 May 2003
Purpose of Brief
 Discuss key elements of potential Semantic Web
Pilot Programs
 Why do a pilot?
 Candidate Pilot Program Elements
 Available Resources
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Why Do A Pilot Program?
 Availability of information on the web is growing much faster than
our ability to use it
 Complexity of information exploitation processes has significantly
outpaced the human capacity
 Software agents will be required to find, assess and exploit available
information to effectively manage complex processes
 Semantic web technology allows software agents to understand
more about the data allowing finely targeted searches/ assessments.
 Semantic web technology allows data/knowledge to be maintained
in a distributed dynamic environment separate from the processes
that use it.
The Semantic Web is coming . . .
and with it a paradigm shift in knowledge management capabilities!
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Pilot Program Elements
 Candidate pilot programs for leveraging Semantic Web
technologies will be characterized by information / knowledge
management requirements that go beyond off-the-shelf
solutions; and include some or all of the following :
 Ability to integrate information across multiple distributed data
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Ability to quickly build and manage tailored, semantically rich
knowledge bases
Ability to quickly and efficiently drill down through massive data
sources
Ability to traverse data sources by analyzing statements about
statements
Ability to infer non-specified information from specified
information
Ability to translate information instances and context across
multiple data sources and knowledge bases
Ability to easily and quickly monitor, integrate and exploit new
data sources as they become available anywhere on the web
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Next Steps
 Define and bound the problem space
 Identify critical data sources
 Some may be available
 Others will have to be generated, translated
 Determine mechanism for accessing the data
 On demand
 Cached knowledge base
 Define client side requirements
 Agent vs applications
 User interfaces/portals
 Identify candidate tools as required to jumpstart the effort
 Development tools
 Existing Agents / Applications
 Inference engines
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Leverage Available Resources to
Jump-start the Pilot Program
Transition to Resources Discussion
By Mike Dean
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