Discussion/Conclusion
Ontologies are exploding and at the core of many applications
Business “pull” is driving ontology language tools and languages
New generation applications need more expressive ontologies and more back end reasoning
New generation users (the general public) need more support than previous users of KR&R systems
Distributed ontologies need more support for merging and analysis and handling incompleteness(and inconsistencies)
Scale and distribution of the web force mind shift
Everyone is in the game – Government (DARPA, NSF, NIST, …), W3C, consortiums, business, …