Someone wondered why I was blogging so intensely about the KiWi Project Kick-off: Not only because it is an intriguing project but also, yes indeed, because the Semantic Web Company itself is part of the KiWi Project, and my blogging was not simply the result of some arbitrary interest:-) The main two work packages to which SWC is contributing are Application building (WP6), i.e. the use case scenario which is going to be elaborated in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, and Demonstration (WP9), in particular the Technology Road Show where the project outcomes are going to be presented and demonstrated on-site to potentially interested organisations. I am also going to be involved in Demonstration, but first and foremost in Dissemination (WP8), which is the third biggest work package, and which aims at spreading the word in the scientific community.

But who is the Semantic Web Company (SWC) anyway and what to they do? Continue reading →