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Semantics 2029 - A roadmap for Semantic technology -
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Motivation
Looking back twenty years to the year 1988, few would have predicted the impact of the Internet to our daily lives. Internet technologies have effected a major transformation and spurred innovations in many other technologies and sciences. This transformation has been achieved by tearing apart prior frictions in communication and information exchange. We advocate that Semantics tears down many of the remaining frictions. So.. How will the world look twenty years from now ? Which other set of major transformations can we expect from Semantic technologies ? What is the role of Semantic technology in responding to large societal challenges ? Which new application areas could emerge from fusion of Semantics with other technologies and sciences ? Obviously, answers to such questions and predictions of the future come with great uncertainty. Nevertheless, a development of shared visions of the future can create powerful expectations of the potential of emerging technologies and mobilize resources necessary for their realization.
Objectives
STI International invites world-leading experts in future Internet technologies as well as semantics to a series of workshops to come up with a vision of the future of Semantic technologies and a technology roadmap towards the year 2029. The roadmap will formulate (shared) visions of the future and shall create powerful expectations of the potential of emerging Semantic technologies. The roadmap will identify common problems and propose research strands to overcome barriers. The roadmap is therefore also intended to mobilize the funding and attention necessary to realize the formulated visions and scenarios.
Approach
STI International invites selected international experts to join into the discussion of visions and scenarios of the future in a set of three invitation-only workshops collocated with major European conferences in the next few months. STI International brings this group together to define and produce a roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of semantic technologies and assess the role of Semantics in computing technologies as well as other sciences in the next twenty years. In preparation of the Workshop the invitees will receive a white paper which compiles publicly available forecasts, predictions and trends from other parties in a coherent framework. The participants are invited to challenge these forecasts and amend them with their own suggestions about possible developments. Based on this discussion, the participants of the first workshop will outline several technological and societal scenarios for a year 2029. These scenarios will then be discussed at the two consecutive workshops, where participants are invited to “backcast” the developments necessary for a realization of the scenarios. The roadmap is not intended to capture the widest democratic consensus, but shall reflect the (potentially diverging) views among the group of visionaries and experts invited. In fact, we consider “consensus” to be counter productive for the roadmap, which aims to open new frontiers for the development of semantic technologies.
Expected Results
This discussion will result in the report “Semantics 2029 - A roadmap for Semantic technology” that sets out the challenges and opportunities arising from the identified scenarios and the expected synthesis of Semantics with other computing technologies and the increasing use of Semantics in areas outside computer science. The report seeks to identify the requirements necessary to accelerate scientific advances in Semantics – particularly those driven by computing technologies other than the Web and the 'new kinds' of applications the synthesis of Semantics and other technologies is creating. We hope the report will act as a 'pathfinder' to new research directions in the area. We also hope that it will contribute to, and inform, national and international scientific debate and science policy. It is also just a start, a catalyst for more discussion, so lastly, we hope that you will find it useful, inspiring and provocative.