Semantic Web Today: From Oil Rigs to Panama Papers

TL;DR

This paper discusses the current state and future potential of the Semantic Web across various industries, highlighting its benefits in transforming data management and application development.

Contribution

It provides an overview of how different industries are leveraging Semantic Web technologies and offers insights into future applications and developments.

Findings

Semantic Web benefits multiple data-intensive industries

Current applications span oil exploration and investigative journalism

Future roles of Semantic Web are significant in various sectors

Abstract

The next leap on the internet has already started as Semantic Web. At its core, Semantic Web transforms the document oriented web to a data oriented web enriched with semantics embedded as metadata. This change in perspective towards the web offers numerous benefits for vast amount of data intensive industries that are bound to the web and its related applications. The industries are diverse as they range from Oil & Gas exploration to the investigative journalism, and everything in between. This paper discusses eight different industries which currently reap the benefits of Semantic Web. The paper also offers a future outlook into Semantic Web applications and discusses the areas in which Semantic Web would play a key role in the future.