Bernhard Schandl's blog

During the upcoming weeks I will give some details about the internals of CLUUG — how it works, and what's behind the scenes.

As you may have already seen, CLUUG manages your things — these are the ones that represent your information. Everything may become a thing, starting from a Web page through an email message through a file on your hard disk. But not only digital stuff can become a thing. People, projects, locations, topics — everything you can imagine can become a thing.

You probably haven't realized it yet, but the value lost due to missing information is enormous. A 2005 study by M.K. Bergman reveals that

• it costs in average $150 to find a misfiled document;
• 7.5 percent of all documents are lost forever;
• the average knowledge worker spends 25% of their work time with searching for critical information; and
• organizations spend 5 to 15% of their total revenue (!) on handling documents.

We are very happy to announce that gnowsis.com has won the 3rd price at this year's ESTC Innovation Seedcamp! A big thank you to the jury, and congratulations to the winners Collibra and flimmit!

gnowsis.com will participate at the 2009 ESTC Innovation Seed Camp together with a fine selection of current Semantic Web-related startups from all over Europe. We are looking forward to seeing you there; if you want to meet us during the conference please contact us.

In a recent interview Tim Berners-Lee not only stated that HTTP URIs could have been designed without the double slashes at the beginning (with which I actually disagree: it adds uniqueness and recognizabillity to the whole thing), another important fact somehow gets missing in this interview: when asked to explain the Semantic Web in a nutshell, Tim gives concrete examples of a navigation system in your car that is aware of your calendar and knows where to take you to your next appointment.