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This volume has introduced the foundations and technologies which make up the Semantic Web. Mostly the discussion has been on the state of the art, but what developments can be expected next in semantic technologies? What social and technological trends will spur and enable the next generation of semantic technology? Which application areas can one expect to gain most added value from implementation of semantic technologies in the next 15 years? With expert eyes on the crystal ball, this final chapter of the first volume will outline these future trends.

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Acknowledgments

This chapter includes summaries of the results of the STI International Roadmapping Service, in which a number of expert workshops took place over the period of September 2008 to July 2009 to gather experts’ visions on the future trends in semantic technologies, and which would have not been possible without the following people:

The Roadmapping Service Co-ordinators Raphael Volz, Fabio Ciravegna and Rudi Studer

The presenters at the first workshop: Diego Berrueta, Michael Brodie, Fabio Ciravegna, Emanuelle Della Valle, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic, Lyndon Nixon, Rudi Studer, Vojtech Svatek

The presenters at the second workshop: Philip Cimiano, Fabio Ciravegna, David De Roure, Stefan Decker, John Domingue, Aldo Gangiemi, Carole Goble, Mark Greaves, James Hendler, Ivan Herman, Guus Schreiber, Elena Simperl

The presenters at the third workshop: Andreas Abecker, Catherina Burghart, Fabio Ciravegna, Graham Hench, Elena Simperl, Rudi Studer, Ioan Toma

The Semantic Technology Institute (STI) is an association of leading industry and research organizations in semantic technologies. More details about STI can be found at http://www.sti2.org. The STI Roadmapping service is one of a number of member services set up and carried out by STI; for more see http://roadmap.sti2.org, which includes links to videos and presentations from all three roadmapping workshops.

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  1. Semantic Technology Institute (STI) International, Amerlingstrasse 19/35, 1060, Vienna, Austria

    Lyndon Nixon

  2. Volz Innovation GmbH, Postfach 45, 76597, Loffenau, Germany

    Dr. Raphael Volz

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portabello, Sheffield, S1 4DP, United Kingdom

    Fabio Ciravegna

  4. FZI Research Center for Information Technology, D-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Rudi Studer

  5. Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Rudi Studer

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  1. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

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  2. STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

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  3. Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA

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Nixon, L., Volz, R., Ciravegna, F., Studer, R. (2011). Future Trends. In: Domingue, J., Fensel, D., Hendler, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92913-0_14

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