semantic web in enterprise

an agile startup perspective

Jeen Broekstrajeen.broekstra@insightng.com

Tuesday, 22 October 13

InsightNG

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Tuesday, 22 October 13

Agile development• Individuals and interactions

over processes and tools

• Working software over comprehensive documentation

• Customer collaborationover contract negotiation

• Responding to change over following a plan

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choosing semantic web

“Well, we’re creating graphs, and RDF is graphs, so let’s use RDF.”

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expected benefits

• quick integration of heterogeneous data sources

• flexible modeling of relevant information

• powerful querying capabilities

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flexible data integration

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screenshot dbpedia

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SW + Agile: a natural fit

• flexibility

• pay-as-you-go data integration

• self-documenting

• the model is the documentation

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Pitching the SW• (most) businesses do not care about

Linked Data or Open Data or being able to reason with data

• (most) businesses do care about building products their users want; and what the user wants can change rapidly

• we should present our solutions in terms of their cares and needs

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Take home message• agile methods and SW tech are natural

partners in crime

• pitching SW tech should focus on its flexibility and its fit with agile principles

• Openness will follow

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