A Pellet User Survey
by Kendall Clark
One of the areas we’re interested in as a business is OWL and, more specifically, Description Logics. There has been a lot of talk lately about the low-expressivity end of the Semantic Web spectrum; but we think OWL DL is still the place to be to do interesting work, solve real (that is, hard) problems, and build a market. We’re primarily concerned with solving our customer’s problems, rather than building any grand public systems. We’ll leave that to others.
So what we really need, if we’re going to build the kinds of tools people want, is an ongoing conversation about OWL, DL, Pellet, etc. Having that conversation is one reason we give talks, write papers, and sponsor conferences.
But another way is, well, just asking people (or “the community”) directly, or as directly as is possible, what they think, need, want, and what they are or might be willing to pay for. To that end, here’s a pointer to the 2007 Pellet User Survey (hosted by the very nice Wufoo web forms service—highly recommended).
Since we’re going to be offering commercial support of Pellet starting in 2007, we’re trying to gather information about what makes sense to concentrate on. So if you’ve ever used Pellet, use it regularly, or are just curious, please let us know what you think:
https://clarkparsia.wufoo.com/forms/2007-pellet-user-survey/
