Semantic Web Awareness Barometer 2008 – Preliminary Results

Social Software
1. Wikis are king! Social Bookmarking stays behind.
2. Differring applications & usage patterns of social software
3. Differring notions about the benefits of and barriers to Social Software

Semantic Web
1. Semantic Web is something familiar!
2. Application-oriented catch up – but where are the young academics?
3. „I taught myself about the Semantic Web.“
4. Semantic Web has a corporate relevance!: Search – the killer app! Integration costs & data control might be important aspects.
5. Differring notions about the barriers?
6. Competencies and collaboration will change …
7. Time to market 2 – 5 years!
8. No differences in region, IT competence & familiarity

We will give a short presentation at today’s Semantic Web Meetup in Berlin. If you can’t join us, don’t worry! You can download the slides right here: Semantic Web Awareness Barometer 2008 – Preliminary Results

A detailed report will be available by April.