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<li><a href="#summary">what are vertical applications</a>
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<h2 id="summary">What are Vertical Applications?</h2>
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<p>Vertical applications is the term used at W3C to denote particular, generic
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application areas, specific communities, etc, that explore how W3C technologies
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(e.g., Semantic Web technologies) can help their operations, improve their
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efficiencies, provide better user experiences, etc. Some of these application
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areas may decide to form some sort a group at W3C to cooperate with other
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W3C members to explore these possibilities further. Examples for such vertical
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applications that have contact with W3C on different levels are
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health care and life sciences, social spaces, digital libraries,
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financial services, oil & gas exploration, or e-Government.</p>
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<h2 id="uses">What are Vertical Applications Used For?</h2>
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<p>Apart from the inherent advantages for a particular vertical application
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area to get a better familiarity with a particular W3C technology, these
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groups also provide valuable feedbacks on the technologies themselves.
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Vertical applications may bring forward specific and sometimes
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highly non-trivial use cases, requirements in terms of, say,
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the expressivity of <a href="ontology">vocabulary</a> or
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<a href="query">query</a> languages,
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efficiency considerations for <a href="inference">inferences</a>, etc.
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Work on the second generations of languages like OWL2 or SPARQL1.1, or the
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work on R2RML, has been greatly motivated
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by the feedbacks provided by these vertical applications.
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<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
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<p>A good example is the
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<a href="/2001/sw/hcls/">The Health Care and Life Science Interest Group</a>.
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It has been set up, in 2005, to explore the usability of Semantic Web technologies
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in area like drug discovery, patient care management and reporting, publication
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of scientific knowledge, drug approval procedures, etc. The group has produced
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several demonstrations, publications, organized workshops and conferences, and
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has succeeded in turning this particular application area into one of the most
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active user communities of Semantic Web technologies. Most major drug research
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companies, university labs and
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research center working in the area, and specialized tool providers
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participated in this work. The feedbacks provided
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by this group was also significant for Semantic Web technologies; as an example the
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definition of some of the OWL2 Profiles was strongly influenced by
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the <a href="ontology">ontologies and vocabularies</a> developed by this community.
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<p>The Semantic Web community maintains a <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SwBooks">list of books</a>
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on a W3C Wiki page. Some of those books
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are introductory in nature while others are conference proceedings or
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textbook that address more advanced topics.
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Semantic Web related talks</a>, given by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/">W3C Staff</a>,
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the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/">staff of the W3C Offices</a>,
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and members of the W3C Working Groups are available separately; the slides
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are usually publicly available. The
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W3C also maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/">collection of Semantic
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Web Case Studies and Use Cases</a> that
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/09/xbrl-pressrelease">Financial Data on the Web: A Collaborative Workshop with W3C and XBRL International, Inc.</a>
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<p class="date">5 October 2009</p>
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