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The fourth annual Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) took place at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel. There were more than  more than 1,000 attendees covering a wide range of profiles: publishers, users, developers, entrepreneurs, businessmen… They were privileged witnesses of the last advances in this area.
 
 

Some trends spotted in San Jose:
•  A killer application has not been found yet, and it is not expected to be found. For this reason it is supposed a smooth introduction of these technologies with his progressive inclusion in solutions.
•  At present, it has been reached a maturity level enough to include these technologies in products.
•  A global semantic solution for all the areas is not feasible. Nevertheless vertical solutions are running for both B2B and Web 2.0
•  Venture Capital companies are betting on applications that use  these technologies in the Web 2.0 (for instance, Twine). A 50 bn $ market is expected in 2010, but only if Web 2.0 companies find sustainable business models.
•  There is an exploratory activity by Administration to find concrete uses of solutions with semantic components. Mainly in relation to security (terrorism) and defence (USA)
•  Social applications will have a paramount importance in the development of semantic technologies
•  Efforts to reuse existing data must be done. “Bridges” between relational database and RDF are being defined