The Tetherless World Weblog

The OWL Experiences and Directions meeting concluded today. Info on it is up at: http://www.webont.org/owled/2008dc/ .

One talk I found interesting was a controlled English interface. It is too early to consider robust but is interesting to explore for one kind of interface to our applications - http://www.webont.org/owled/2008dc/papers/owled2008dc_paper_5.pdf

A lot of interesting experiences on OWL and new OWL features has been intensively discussed in OWL: Experiences and Directions(OWLED 2008). But (potential) users, for adoption purposes, still need some clarification on the lessons learned from past. Therefore, I’m hoping the following questionnaire be answered the OWL community.

1. OWL constructs
   1. What have been used?
   2. What are still missing?
2. OWL inference
   1. What inference has been used to solve problem?
   2. What other inference is used together with OWL inference, e.g. sparql, swrl?
3. OWL user experience
   1. How hard is it to build/reuse OWL ontology?
   2. How hard is it to build/reuse OWL instance data?
   3. How does OWL help web users, and how does the Web impact OWL ?