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Semantic Web/LD at a Crossroads: Into the Garbage Can or To Theory?

Semantic Web/LD at a Crossroads: Into the Garbage Can or To Theory?

  • Abraham Bernstein21 
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Since its inception Semantic Web research projects have tried to sail the strait between the Scylla of overly theoretical irrelevance and the Charybdis of nonscientific applied projects.

Like Odysseus the Semantic Web community was wooed by the neatness of theoretical explorations of knowledge representation methods that endanger to crash the community into the Scylla the rock of irrelevance.

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  1. University of Zurich, Switzerland

    Abraham Bernstein

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  1. Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Englerstrasse 11, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Elena Simperl

  2. CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Morgenbreede 39, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Philipp Cimiano

  3. Siemens AG Österreich, Siemensstrasse 90, 1210, Vienna, Austria

    Axel Polleres

  4. Technical University of Madrid, C/ Severo Ochoa, 13, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Oscar Corcho

  5. STLab, ISTC-CNR, Via Nomentana 56, 00161, Rome, Italy

    Valentina Presutti

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Bernstein, A. (2012). Semantic Web/LD at a Crossroads: Into the Garbage Can or To Theory?. In: Simperl, E., Cimiano, P., Polleres, A., Corcho, O., Presutti, V. (eds) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30284-8_1

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