Semantic Web 10 Years from Now:

WILL IT READ MY MIND AND COOK ME BREAKFAST?

Paola Di MaioISWC 2012 Boston, USA

http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sw2022/

THANK YOU!!

- for 20 years of world changingg web (for making it real and for defending it)- for accepting my contribution for this workshop (big honor!)- for opening up the Semantic Web vision beyond a narrow viewpoint- for letting me WRAP UP such a visionary session summarising the contributions

WISHFUL THINKING! in 10 years

● The semantic web will work, and its architecture will be elegant and transparent

● It will be like pervasive thin veil of structure and sensemaking wrapping web content

● Most web users will be able to benefit from it!

● It will be user friendly and useful!

MAIN AREAS FOR THE VISION

● Online! (it will work and be transparent)

● Will support cognitive enhancement

● will Validate its output (truth, factchecking)

● Convergence of paradigms

● Good Interfaces● Interoperable standards

● Socio technically beautiful and useful

● Will be aware and support social innovation

● Integrated with the sensor web

● Annotatable/interactive● Sustainable

Check out the paper http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sw2022/sw2022_paper15.pdf

SUMMARIZING AND MAPPING CONTRIBUTIONSIn the next slide, I summarise the points discussed in my paper as a table (top row) and thenI map/plot the other contributions to align the content of the workshop

1) I merged the points that were very similar 2) Contributions in the workshop seem to loosely correspond to one, or more than one points in my paper, however some of the points in the paper are not covered by other contributions (see the blue columns)

EDITABLE VERSION OF THIS TABLE http://tinyurl.com/8fd762q

A BUBBLE VIEW OF THE VISION EDITABLE VERSION: http://tinyurl.com/94v34qw

THREE AREAS NOT targeted by other contributions

ONLINE: Given exponential speed of change the SW needs to be sustainable and provide real time capabilities for all. SUSTAINABLE: The web will be big, which is ok, provided it is 'sustainable', otherwise we are designing systems that will be written off at some point (for a discussion on sustainability eslewhere)INTERFACES: to make use of all its capabilities

THE WHACKY BITS: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPT DEFINITIONS COGNITIVE CLIMAX Climax is a figure of speech, a rethorical and poetical device (Encyclopedia britannica)Applied to the domain of cognition, it indicates a general concept for the enhanced state of mind that can be achieved when optimal knowledge is attained. Knowledge boundaries dissolution: considering reality as a whole (read Seve Lehar http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/webstuff/book2/Boundaries.

pdf)

Enlightenment: 'perfect' knowledge attainment

(Note: The fact that someone has never experienced a cognitive climax, doesnt meanthey will not do so in the future)

WILL IT READ MY MIND?Very likely: IBM, and others have been working at it for years. A couple of links:http://mashable.com/2011/12/21/ibm-kevin-brown-mind-reading/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/18/tech/predictive-technology-future/index.html

Scary? PossiblyWe should prepare

image: masheable)

AND WILL IT COOK ME BREAKFAST?Likely, the capabilities will be there to web enabled devices through sensor web.

Image: CNN

More importantly:

● SW will be moving toward the 'general intelligence' paradigm (narrow will be narrow)

● Looking at the workshop programmeit looks like the semantic web will try to be inclusive....

Have a great hands on session!

welcome to edit the diagrams if helpful

EDITABLE VERSIONS

http://tinyurl.com/8fd762qhttp://tinyurl.com/94v34qw

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Thank you for listening, and questions

CREDITS :see the paper for, references, images taken from various sourceslinked to in this presentation

QUESTIONS: Can take questions all day on IRC channel: irc://irc.mibbit.net/ISTCS

CONTACT:Get in touch, or ping me via email anytime :-)

IMAGE: LOGIC LANE COLLECTION, OXFORD UK