Blog commentary on Twine, Talis, Clearforest

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The Semantic Web has evolved constantly over the last few years. Nevertheless, in many cases I have experienced a huge demand for profound knowledge in this area. Many potential end-users of semantic web technologies have quite a few ideas of how to apply semantic web, but still many software-projects will never happen, because of the lack of knowledge, because of the fear of getting trapped by too complex technologies. Obviously it´s not the technology anymore but the awareness and personal knowledge about the semantic web [http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=23], which is the actual bottleneck for the semantic web getting real.
The Semantic Web Company (SWC) [http://www.semantic-web.at/]is offering in 12 daily seminars a training-course for persons who want to become a Web expert. Participants  get step by step advanced in methods and technologies for semantic projects. Each seminar is a stand-alone-module and can also be booked singularly.
From 27th of Mai to 4th of July 2008 the SWC curriculum will take place. A special focus will be on applications and solutions of semantic technologies to support social processes.

The curriculum will provide profound insights into the topics Semantic Web and Social Software. Therefore the seminars are grouped into three comprehensive modules:
* “Next Step”: Social Web & Social Software

27. - 30. May 2008

* “Advanced Level”: Textmining & Enterprise Search

10. - 13. June 2008

* “Expert View”: Semantic Web & Metadata Management

01. - 4. July 2008
The modules will take place at the Austrian Computer Society [http://www.ocg.at] in Vienna. The main language in the courses is German. English courses can be provided on demand. As mentioned on Read/WriteWeb there are at least 10 (rather commercial) semantic web applications “around” which claim to use semantic web technologies for different purposes: “10 Semantic Apps to Watch”. (Besides this at least 100 prototypes from various research programms exist in this field).
My “short list” of those 10 apps consists of the following three:

twine
Talis
clearforest

To my opinion these 3 projects have the highest potential to become a “big player” in the next generation web. Instead of “improving” what Google does, they try to fulfill a totally new mission:

Twine isn´t organising the “knowledge of the whole world” (like Google would like to do) they rather focus o ...

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