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Health Warning: This is going to be a pretentious talk

Health Warning: This is going to be a pretentious talk. Philosophical confession coming up: What I believe about scientific knowledge. Laws about the information universe, just like laws about the physical universe. alchemy. Did a decade of Semantic Web work help to discover

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Health Warning: This is going to be a pretentious talk

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  1. Health Warning: This is going to be a pretentious talk

  2. Philosophical confessioncoming up: What I believe about scientific knowledge

  3. Laws about the information universe, just like laws about the physical universe

  4. alchemy

  5. Did a decade of Semantic Web work help to discover any Computing Science laws?

  6. What have we built?

  7. Let’s treat the last 10 years as a giant experiment

  8. Some well known “laws” about information do indeed apply

  9. USE RE-USE USE U = 1-R

  10. Factual knowledge is a graph

  11. Terminological knowledge is a hierarchy

  12. Terminological knowledge is much smaller than the factual knowledge

  13. Terminological knowledge is of low complexity

  14. heterogeneity is unavoidable

  15. heterogeneity is solvable socially, culturally, economically (and a little bit algorithmically)

  16. publication should be distributed, computation should be centralised

  17. speed increases with parallelisation

  18. in 2011 in 2010

  19. knowledge about knowledge

  20. Finally: a call to arms

  21. Theory? What theory?

  22. Big thank you to: MyriaNikolaidou & Paul Groth Annette ten Teije Stefan Schlobach Christophe Gueret EmanueleDella Valle and all at the SemWeb@VUA group

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