Posted by Michael Marth
NOV 18, 2009
Posted in iks-project and lotd
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French IT mag LeMagIT has published an article about the IKS project including quotations from Bertrand Delacretaz. Bertrand emphasizes the need for concrete results:
pour décoller, les technologies sémantiques ont besoin de cas d'utilisateur concrets
In the comments section Bertrand mentions his tag line for semantic technologies that I can very well relate to:
La sémantique "sous le capot" oui, la sémantique "dans la figure", non
This roughly translates as: "semantics under the hood yes, semantics in your face, no".
In Computerworld UK open source blogger Glyn Moody has described his first hands impressions from the IKS workshop in Rome. He comes to a similar conclusion:
Paradoxically, semantic search will only ever really take off once it has receded so far into the fabric of computing that people aren't even aware it's there.