Transcript Panel: “Funding Strategies for the Semantic Web: Current Activities and Future Trends ” Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS AIFB Rudi Studer FZI Research Center for Information Technologies http://www.fzi.de Ontoprise.

Panel: “Funding Strategies for the
Semantic Web:
Current Activities and Future Trends ”
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS
AIFB
Rudi Studer
FZI Research Center for Information
Technologies
http://www.fzi.de
Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe
http://www.ontoprise.de
ESWC‘2005, May 31, 2005
• Various funding agencies have spent and still spend a
significant amount of money for Semantic Technologies /
Semantic Web
• DARPA DAML programme
• First significant budget
• but programme is ending
• EU 5th framework
• Small investment in a few projects
• EU 6th framework
• Major investment in Integrated Projects and
Networks of Excellence
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Motivation
National funding programmes
• Science Foundation Ireland
• Major investment, cf. e.g. DERI
• UK
• AKT project
• Semantic Grid
• Austria
• Semantic Web programme
• The Netherlands
• Significant funding, semantics and multimedia
• Germany
• Funding in some projects, e.g. SmartWeb
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Motivation (2)
• What is the history of funding these areas?
• What is the current funding programme:
• Instruments
• What kind of projects are funded:
• Size of the project in terms of partners
• Structure in terms of type of institutions being
involved
• Budget
• Amount of money made available
• Funding schemes
• What have been major achievements and or failures?
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Panel Topics
• What are the plans for the future:
• What kind of innovation deserves funding
• Topics, structure of programmes, budget
• What are success criteria
• What is the situation in
• US
• Europe
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Panel Topics
• Gio Wiederhold, Stanford Univ. & Mitre Corp.
• Stefano Bertolo, European Commission
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Panelists