It has been difficult knowing how to approach the preliminary report on semantic technologies. As a recap, for this study I intend to
- write a report on how semantic technologies are currently being used and send that to project people (it'll also be available from here)
- run a series of 'imagine' sessions with 10-15 projects in which we try to work out in what ways each project might be adapted to make use of semantic technologies and, if relevnt, to produce mockups of those newly imagines interfaces
So, really, the report needs to fire the imagination of project participants more than just inform them of the state of semantic technology (something for which reports are written pretty regularly - and I know of one in preparation which will be far better written than anything I could produce in the time allowed).
What I am doing then is to look at the papers presented to the recent ESWC 2008 conference and to pick out a few and highlight what they say about which technologies are or might soon be availble and how they might be used.
Anyway, that was what I came up with as an approach. Does this sound like it'll do the job? Any alternatives (that can be done with only 3-4 days work) you can think of, or alterations to the aproach?
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