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<h1>Testimonials for W3C's Semantic Web Recommendations - RDF and OWL</h1>
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<p>These testimonials are in support of <a href="sws-pressrelease">W3C's
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Semantic Web Recommendations - RDF and OWL</a> .</p>
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<p class="menu"><a href="#twentyfour">Adobe Systems</a> | <a
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href="#sixteen">Aduna BV</a> | <a href="#one">Agfa-Gevaert N. V.</a> | <a
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href="#eleven">Boeing</a> | <a href="#ten">Brandsoft, Inc.</a> | <a
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href="#six">Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of
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Bristol</a> | <a href="#fourteen">Creative Commons</a> | <a
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href="#three">DARPA</a> | <a href="#eighteen">Fujitsu</a> | <a
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href="#twenty">HP</a> | <a href="#nineteen">IBM</a> | <a
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href="#twentyone">INRIA</a> | <a href="#two">Maryland Information and Network
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Dynamics (MIND) Laboratory</a> | <a href="#thirteen">University of Maryland
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(UMBC)</a> | <a href="#twelve">McDonald Bradley, Inc. (MBI)</a> | <a
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href="#seven">Mondeca</a> | <a href="#nine">Mozilla Foundation</a> | <a
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href="#twentytwo">Network Inference, Ltd.</a> | <a href="#fifteen">Nokia</a>
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| <a href="#five">Profium</a> | <a href="#four">Semaview, Inc.</a> | <a
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href="#seventeen">University of Southampton</a> | <a href="#twentythree">Sun
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Microsystems, Inc.</a> | <a href="#eight">TopQuadrant</a></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="twentyfour" name="twentyfour">As the leading
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provider of content creation tools to help people communicate better, adding
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intelligence to media via metadata was integral to our strategy. We developed
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Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) based on RDF, because it provided a
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flexible and interoperable framework for fostering the capture, preservation,
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and interchange of metadata across digital media and workflows. The Adobe
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Creative Suite provides a design platform that enables creative professional
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to create information rich assets powered by XMP that can be more effectively
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repurposed and consumed across multiple media and diverse domains.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- David Burkett, Director of Product Management,
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Adobe Systems</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="sixteen" name="sixteen">Aduna B.V., located in
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Amersfoort, The Netherlands, http://aduna.biz/, is very pleased to see both
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RDF and OWL become W3C recommendations. For a company at the forefront of the
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developing products based on Semantic Web technology, stable and
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well-engineered language standards are crucial for our development work, for
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our products and for our customers. Our current products such as the Sesame
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platform for storing and querying meta-data heavily exploits the open
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framework that RDF provides, and we expect to move to the use of OWL in the
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future. We will continue to support the open standards defined by W3C by our
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continued development of both commercial and open source software based on
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these standards.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Martien van Steenbergen, CEO , Aduna
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BV</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="one" name="one">The Semantic Web is the
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representation of data on the World Wide Web. It gives information a
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well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in
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cooperation. Being committed to open standards, AGFA actively participates in
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the Semantic Web Activity and is very glad to see RDF and OWL as a W3C
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Recommendation. They are great, for instance, to categorize medical images
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and their related data.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Jos De Roo, RDFCore and WebOnt WG member, AGFA
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Gevaert N.V.</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="eleven" name="eleven">Boeing is a member of the
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W3C and is an early adopter of RDF, OWL and related Semantic Web
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technologies. Boeing has a number of projects exploring semantics-based
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applications in various areas including information and application
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integration and interoperability, publish/subscribe, knowledge management and
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network centric operations. These technologies are expected to have a strong
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impact on future Boeing programs. Ontologies have become fairly widespread in
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their use and automated reasoning tools are becoming mature. The time is ripe
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for standards in this area, and for widespread tool support from
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vendors.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- James L. Phillips, Director, Mathematics and
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Computing Technology, Boeing Phantom Works</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="ten" name="ten">Brandsoft’s product offerings
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are one of the first commercial implementations of Semantic Web components,
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mainly RDF. Our belief is that enterprises that standardize on a common
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metadata framework, like RDF, will gain significant value, agility, and
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substantial cost reduction. They will also benefit from the ability to
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provide value added services and applications within their extended
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enterprise community (employees, customers, partners, etc.). As a result of
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using RDF, Brandsoft has developed a standards based platform with the
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ability to integrate the various tools needed to: Create, manage and reuse
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content; Publishing capabilities for differing languages, media, and devices;
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Establish relationships between people, processes, and systems.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Frank Careccia, Vice President – Engineering
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and CTO, Brandsoft, Inc.</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="six" name="six">The University of Bristol is
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delighted to see the publication of the W3C RDF and OWL Recommendations. The
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University is a strong supporter of open standards and a long-term
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participant in the RDF work and considers the Semantic Web as important in
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developing advanced learning and research technologies for education.<br />
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Successful RDF-based projects at the University include representing metadata
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schemas, describing thesauri, events and calendaring, syndicating news, web
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site annotation and trust and smarter web searching for digital libraries.
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The University intends to continue developing projects, software and services
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based on this work.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Alison Allden, Director, Institute for Learning
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and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="fourteen" name="fourteen">The efforts of
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Creative Commons to encourage permitted sharing and reuse of works are
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greatly enhanced by the availability and continued development of RDF, which
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serves as the machine-readable layer for our "some rights reserved" licenses.
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One year after launch there are over one million Creative Commons-licensed
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works published on the web, supported by RDF-aware blog, browser, graphics,
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music, publishing, search and validation applications and services. The
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upcoming new and revised components of the RDF specification suite will
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provide a great boost to the understanding and adoption of RDF, and thus our
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work to cultivate an ecology of Creative Commons-aware software.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative
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Commons</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="three" name="three">The DARPA Agent Markup
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Language (DAML) program is pleased to endorse the OWL Web Ontology Language
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produced by the W3C Web Ontology Working Group based on the DAML+OIL language
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developed by the DAML program and its European Union collaborators. We view
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OWL as a major advancement for the Semantic Web, and have been using it
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extensively as part of our on-going work to develop Semantic Web tools,
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rules, and services. We look forward to the wide scale deployment of OWL on
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the World Wide Web.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Mark Greaves, Program Manager, Defense Advanced
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Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="eighteen" name="eighteen">Fujitsu Laboratories
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of America - College Park is currently using OWL as an integral part of our
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work on "Task Computing." Task Computing is a novel integration of the
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Semantic Web with Web Services to provide users with easier ways of achieving
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complicated goals in mobile and/or ubiquitous computing environments.
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Ontologies defined in OWL give us a powerful mechanism for reasoning about
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the composition of heterogeneous services and the use of Web Services lets us
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access real devices and displays. Together they enable new and rich forms of
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interaction between users and their computing environment. The
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standardization of OWL and RDF will facilitate the acceptance of innovative
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software methods such as Task Computing.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Dr. Kazuhiro Matsuo, Senior Vice President and
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General Manager, Fujitsu Laboratories of America</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="twenty" name="twenty">HP actively supports the
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development of the Semantic Web and welcomes the new RDF and OWL
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Recommendations. HP's Semantic Web developers' framework, Jena,
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(http://jena.sourceforge.net/) is an open-source, freely available,
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implementation of both Recommendations, with a large and active developer
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community. We look forward to the Web-scale machine integration of knowledge
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and information that these new Recommendations support.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Vice-President and
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Center Director, Solutions and Services Research Center, HP
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Laboratories</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="nineteen" name="nineteen">IBM has a history of
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using progressive research to deliver business value today and in the future.
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Our research work with the Semantic Web has the potential to open the
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Internet to even more powerful applications. Within IBM we have many active
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research projects working with both RDF and OWL. Our first public Semantic
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Web project, SnoBase, released on AlphaWorks, is a framework for loading
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ontologies from files and using the Internet for locally creating, modifying,
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querying, and storing ontologies. It provides a mechanism for querying
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ontologies and an easy-to-use programming interface for interacting with
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vocabularies of standard ontology specification languages including RDF, RDF
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Schema, and OWL. SnoBase can help a broad range of business applications that
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need knowledge sharing and reuse as well as information search and navigation
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by using reasoning within a generic management environment.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Alfred Z. Spector, vice president, Services and
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Software, IBM Research</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="twentyone" name="twentyone">INRIA is pleased to
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see the publication of OWL and RDF as W3C Recommendations. They will provide
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standard and stable grounds for our developments on searching Web resources -
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through the CORESE search engine - and on adapting knowledge sources -
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through the Transmorpher transformation engine and alignment tools. INRIA
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already takes advantage of available API for OWL and RDF, and expects these
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developments to boost the Semantic Web deployment.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Gérard Giraudon, Director for Development and
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Industrial Relations, INRIA</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="two" name="two">The Maryland Information and
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Network Dynamics (MIND) Laboratory at the University of Maryland focuses on
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helping to speed up the transition of research into practice by partnering
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with industrial and/or government teams in projects focused on advanced
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technology deployment. The Semantic Web was identified by our lab as a
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priority area for this transition, and we are working with a diverse set of
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partners in bringing this important technology into wider practice. The MIND
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Laboratory is proud to have co-chaired the Web Ontology Working Group and
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believes OWL will be an important language in bringing the Semantic Web to
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its full potential.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Jim Hendler, Director of Semantic Web and Agent
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Technologies, MIND Laboratory, University of Maryland</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="thirteen" name="thirteen">The use of ontologies
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is a key requirement for realizing the ubiquitous computing vision.
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Ontologies defined in the Web Ontology Language OWL can help ubiquitous and
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pervasive computer systems to share information and knowledge, reason about
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their environment and interoperate. The Semantic Web in UbiComp Special
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Interest Group is an international group of researchers from academia and
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industry that is using OWL for pervasive computing applications and defining
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ontology-driven use cases demonstrating aspects of the ubiquitous computing
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vision.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Harry Chen, Department of Computer Science
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& Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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County</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="twelve" name="twelve">McDonald Bradley, Inc.
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(MBI) is leveraging the expressiveness and flexibility of the Resource
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Description Framework (RDF) today in its support of many Department of
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Defense and Intelligence Community customers. Specifically, the RDF model was
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a core design feature of the DOD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS)
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Schema. RDF achieving the status of W3C Recommendation will increase the
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number of tools while stabilizing their maturity and features. This will
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enable MBI to better deliver robust Semantic Web applications to its
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customers as they move towards Net-Centric applications.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Michael C. Daconta, Chief Scientist, Advanced
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Programs Group, MBI</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="seven" name="seven">Mondeca is happy to welcome
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the advancement of OWL to W3C recommendation. Always eager to make its
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technology conformant to the widest range of semantic standards, the company
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has started to use OWL since mid-2003 in customers applications, to describe
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and set up knowledge models in its ontology-driven knowledge management
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platform, ITM.<br />
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ITM ontology layer was beforehand specified using proprietary internal
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representation. Using OWL provides ITM with new capacity to describe it in a
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standard and interoperable format, to re-use customer-defined or public
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domain ontologies, and paves the way to future developments integrating the
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power of inference tools.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Bernard Vatant, Senior Consultant, Knowledge
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Engineering, Mondeca</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="nine" name="nine">RDF gives us a data model for
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describing information organization structures (metadata) for collections of
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networked information. Mozilla uses it as a standard way to represent the
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many different structures we use to organize the various kinds of information
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we handles --- from bookmarks and email folders to address books and web
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services. RDF remains important on the browser side not only because of these
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current uses but also because of developing trends such as web logs and news
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feeds that are based on RDF. This ability to deal with meta-data independent
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of the protocols and formats associated with the data is essential in moving
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the web forward.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Ben Goodger, Lead Engineer, Mozilla Firebird,
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The Mozilla Foundation</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="twentytwo" name="twentytwo">Network Inference
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congratulates the co-chairs and members of the W3C's Web-Ontology (WebOnt)
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Working Group for their outstanding work on OWL. OWL is a core component in
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building the semantic web, and in delivering the means for true machine
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interoperation. OWL is central to the solutions that Network Inference is
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fielding with enterprises today. The quality of the Working Group's members,
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activities and outputs provide OWL with robustness and integrity, and instill
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the level of confidence in the language which is required for wide adoption.
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Network Inference is committed to continuing to active contributions to W3C's
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efforts in this area.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Jack Berkowitz, Vice President, Engineering,
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Network Inference (Holdings) Ltd</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="fifteen" name="fifteen">Nokia congratulates the
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W3C on the promotion of the new RDF and OWL specifications to full
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recommendations, which are expected to provide a solid foundation for the
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development of the Semantic Web. Having participated actively in both the RDF
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Core and Web Ontology Working Groups since their inception, Nokia is well
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aware of the enormous effort that has gone into this work, and applauds the
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hard-earned success of the Working Group members.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Timo Poikolainen, Vice President of Marketing,
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Technology Platforms, Nokia</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="five">Profium is pleased to see updated RDF
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specifications reach recommendation status with W3C. Profium has been
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promoting the use of Semantic Web technologies with its flagship product
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Semantic Information Router (SIR) since its introduction in April 2001.
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Profium sees the power of RDF and OWL best unleashed in the context of portal
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solutions that ask for metadata repositories that can index both content and
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service descriptions.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Janne Saarela, Managing Director, Profium
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Ltd.</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="four" name="four">Semaview understands the
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immense value of the emerging Semantic Web and currently provides RDF
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versions of every calendar published onto the eventSherpa Network. As more
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semantic islands are created and connected, using RDF and OWL, new and
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exciting technology services will be created. Semaview believes that
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innovation will flourish with the birth of this truly intelligent Internet
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based on the W3C's Semantic Web work.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">--Paul Cowles, VP, Development and Operations,
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Semaview, Inc.</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="seventeen" name="seventeen">The University of
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Southampton and the Advanced Knowledge Technologies interdisciplinary
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research collaboration (AKT IRC) enthusiastically endorse the W3C Resource
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Description Framework recommendations. The RDF suite of specifications are
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fundamentally important to the success of the W3C's Semantic Web initiative.
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RDF provides a common framework for the expression of metadata and metadata
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schemata. Such metadata support the semantic annotation of Web content and
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services, which underpin knowledge integration and exchange. A number of
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leading research projects within the University and AKT IRC are making
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extensive use of RDF, including our scalable open-source RDF repository
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software, 3store.</a><br />
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The University of Southampton and the Advanced Knowledge Technologies
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interdisciplinary research collaboration (AKT IRC) enthusiastically endorse
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the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language recommendation, a key specification in the
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W3C's Semantic Web initiative. OWL permits the definition of sophisticated
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ontologies, a fundamental requirement in the integration of heterogeneous
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information content. OWL ontologies will also be important for the
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characterization of interoperable services for knowledge-intensive processing
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on the Web. Research on next-generation products and services within the
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University and AKT IRC is incorporating OWL as standard.</p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Professor Nigel Shadbolt (Director), Professor
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David De Roure (Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing), and Dr Nicholas
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Gibbins, AKT IRC, University of Southampton</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="twentythree" name="twentythree">Sun
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Microsystems, a member of the W3C and the Web Ontology Working Group, wishes
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to congratulate the co-chairs and members of the W3C working groups on the
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successful publication of the RDF and OWL recommendations. Sun's own internal
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enterprise ontology management solution is based on RDF and associated
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Semantic Web technologies. RDF provides Sun with the foundation for superior
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knowledge aggregation and application integration.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Lew Tucker, V.P. Internet Services, Sun
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Microsystems, Inc.</span></p>
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<p class="testimonial"><a id="eight" name="eight">TopQuadrant is encouraged
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by today’s announcement and strongly supports W3C's standardization of OWL.
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Our Government clients understand that the demands of e-Government solutions,
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such as Federal Enterprise Architecture, digital preservation (NARA) and
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aerospace programs (NASA) go beyond the current capabilities of XML. They
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realize that semantic technologies are essential and, in particular, that OWL
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is critically important for consistent and flexible enterprise data
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integration. In response to strong interest expressed by our clients,
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TopQuadrant offers a continuing program of Briefings and Workshops on
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Semantic Technologies that showcase the use of RDF(S) and OWL.</a></p>
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<p><span class="QuoteAttr">-- Robert Coyne, President, TopQuadrant</span></p>
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<hr />
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<h2>About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]</h2>
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<p>The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing
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common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
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It is an international industry consortium jointly run by the <a
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href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/">MIT Computer Science and Artificial
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Intelligence Laboratory</a> (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the <a
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href="http://www.ercim.org/">European Research Consortium for Informatics and
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Mathematics</a> (ERCIM) headquartered in France and <a
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href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio University</a> in Japan. Services provided
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by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide
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Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications
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