Discussion/Conclusion
•Ontologies are exploding; 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: merging, analysis, incompleteness, versioning, etc.
•Scale and distribution of the web force
mind shift
•Everyone is in the game – US Government
(DARPA, NSF, NIST,
…), EU, W3C, consortiums, business, …
•This is THE time for ontology
work!!!