Organisations that develop semantic models have a lot to think about. The envisioned benefits from semantic solutions have to compete with many factors of uncertainty that threaten project results. Challenges lie not only in the evident scarcity of knowledge, skills and tools but also in other factors such as business objectives and requirements.
In this talk Lieke Verhelst shares her long experience as a semantic modeller. Side by side with subject matter experts she has constructed semantic models and infrastructures for the environment, construction and education sectors. She will point out which common pitfalls she has seen during a ontology development process. While illustrating these, she will come to answering the question why SKOS is the key to success for semantic solution projects.
Owner at Linked Data Factory
Linked Data Factory
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Lieke Verhelst MSc has a degree in Geo-Information Management and Applications. For this degree she wrote a thesis about using semantic technologies for rule based requirement specifications. Ever since then she has been inspired by Tim Berners-Lee's vision of an intelligent web, driven by Open Data and semantic models.
