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This paper argues that a significant part of today's Semantic Web research is still dominated by ideas from centralized databases. Furthermore, the main thread of reasoning research focusses on approaches that can never scale to anything similar to the Web. Starting from these negative observations we argue that emergent semantics and ontology maturing are more suitable approaches for dealing with ontologies on the Web. Similarly, a few approaches for more Semantic Web appropriate reasoning exist, but are in dire need of realistic use cases.

A paper by me, Andreas Abecker, Denny Vrandecic, Imen Borgi, Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt; Denny will present it at the Workshop: "New forms of reasoning for the Semantic Web: scalable, tolerant and dynamic". The entire paper is here.

The paper reflects my frustration with the fact that a large part of Semantic Web research (in particular in Europe) is concerned with something like "Semantic Databases" and not even trying to tackle the challenges unique to the Semantic Web. The paper had a bit of a strange creation process and ended up being not very controversial, but I think its still useful, particular since it collects and orders references to innovative work related to the Semantic Web (as opposed to Semantic Databases). 

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