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<title>Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe
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(SWAD-Europe)</title>
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<body>
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<div id="leftcontent" valign="top">
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<div align="center" valign="top">
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe">
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<img alt="SWAD-Europe"
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src="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/images/swade100.gif"
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height="75" border="0" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.cordis.lu/ist/">
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<img src="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/images/istlogo-thumb.gif"
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alt="EU IST logo" height="75" border="0" /></a>
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</div>
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<div id="mainMenu">
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<ul id="menuList">
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<li class="nonexpandingmenubar">
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/" id="introMenu"
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name="introMenu">Introduction</a>
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<li class="menubar">
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<a id="demosMenuActuator" class="actuator" accesskey="d"
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name="demosMenuActuator">Demonstrators</a>
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<ul id="demosMenu" class="menu">
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/sem-blog.html">
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Semantic Blogging</a>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/sem-portal.html">
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Semantic Portals</a>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/sem-thes.html">
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Thesaurus Browser</a>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/sem-large.html">
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Scale Demonstrator</a>
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name="themesMenuActuator">Themes</a>
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<ul id="themesMenu" class="menu">
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/gs.html">Getting
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Started</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/tools/">Tools</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/digital-libraries.html">
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Digital Libraries</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/business-integration.html">
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Business Integration</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/images.html">
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Image Description</a>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/community/">
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Community Building</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/history.html">
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Project History</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/future.html">
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Future Directions</a>
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</ul>
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<li class="menubar">
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<a id="guideMenuActuator" class="actuator" accesskey="g"
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name="guideMenuActuator">Guidelines</a>
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<ul id="guideMenu" class="menu">
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<!--<li><a href="blank.html">Aerospace</a> stilo*</li>-->
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/lifesci.html">
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Life Science</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/guide-for-librarian.html">
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Librarian</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/coder.html">
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Coder</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/business-guidelines.html">
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Business Integration</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/heritage.html">
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Heritage</a>
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</ul>
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<li class="menubar">
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<a id="resourcesMenuActuator" class="actuator" accesskey="r"
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name="resourcesMenuActuator">Resources</a>
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<ul id="resourcesMenu" class="menu">
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/intro.html">
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Reports</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/presentations.html">
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Presentations</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li class="nonexpandingmenubar">
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/contact.html"
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id="contactMenu" name="contactMenu">Contact</a>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div id="rightcontent">
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<h1>Themes: Future Directions</h1>
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<h2>What difference did SWAD-Europe make?</h2>
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<p>As always with such projects, some areas proved more rewarding
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than others, and the emphasis of the project evolved in response to
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successes and opportunities. A significant achievement of the
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project has been in the area of outreach and community-building.
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The SKOS work [SKOS] has helped to re-engage the digital library /
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thesaurus community. The ten workshops held as part of the project
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have attracted diverse participants from multiple countries and
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specialities, and from the research, Open Source and business
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communities. Other successful work in the project has included
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software development, in particular the leading opensource C
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implementation of RDF in Redland/Raptor; and well-crafted and
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appealing demonstrators in the areas of Semantic Blogging and
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Semantic Portals, showing that Semantic Web applications can be
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simple, practical and easy. The pragmatic 'walk before we run'
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focus of the project was appreciated both by Semantic Web sceptics
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and by enthusiasts. Project members have also made substantial
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contributions to the editing and chairing of the RDF Core
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standards, and later, helped to establish 'Semantic Web phase two'
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groups at W3C: the Data Access working group and the Semantic Web
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Best Practices and Deployment working group.</p>
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<p>The overarching aim of the project was to provide, through all
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appropriate means, a body of answers to questions that had
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previously gone unanswered, and to foster grassroots communities
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within which such concerns are addressed. Amongst its many themes,
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SWAD-Europe provided detailed answers to developer questions about
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RDF query and storage (analysis of scalability issues; query
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languages; APIs), and human-oriented classification (SKOS for
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thesauri, bookmark sharing etc.; semantic blogging). The project's
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final workshop was on the theme of FOAF, Social Networking and the
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Semantic Web, and illustrated some of the strengths of the project,
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combining presentations from academic, commercial and opensource
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perspectives with active collaborative work on tools and
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applications.</p>
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<p>One lesson from the project is that it is both important and
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rewarding to provide an environment where members of the larger
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community that surrounds W3C can interact and collaboratively
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explore the practical issues around Web technology. The formal work
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of the W3C is based on small, highly focussed Working Groups where
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individuals commit a lot of time to creating new Web standards.
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SWAD-Europe's primary contribution was to help create a supportive
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background environment for such work, by allowing a much larger
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number of geographically-dispersed individuals to participate
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(through email, IRC, workshops and the Web) in the Semantic Web
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initiative. The project was, in the Semantic Web scene, unique in
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its emphasis of the practical and Web aspects of "Semantic Web" for
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a Web developer audience. The support that SWAD-Europe provided to
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the RDF and Semantic Web Interest Group was an important
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exploratory step towards a model for wider participation in Web
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standardisation work, showing that W3C's successful Working
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Group-led approach can be complimented by a broader participation
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model which allows individual researchers and implementors to make
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real contributions to the deployment of existing standards and to
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the creation of new ones. The challenge for the future is to work
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towards a Web in which all European research efforts contribute to
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the communities which underpin the evolution of Web standards.</p>
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