The goal of the FIRST workshop was to demonstrate the early adoption of semantic technologies by enterprises, and to promote further technology transfer from Semantic Web research to industry. It brought industry and research together to present and discuss the pros and cons of applying semantic technologies in business processes, not only to identify how industrial requirements can be met, but also important issues of technology maturity, accessibility, integration into existing enterprise IT structures and maintenance throughout the entire ontology and metadata lifecycle.

SASTAR Workhop was the folow-up of the FIRST workshop. It shared with FIRST the same goals and objectives.

Proceedings of the SASTAR workshop were published in the book “The Semantic Web: a view on data integration, reasoning, human factors, collective intelligence and technology adoption”, Marco Ronchetti  editor. The  294 pages book, that also includes the proceedings of other workshops held at ASWC2008, was published by AIT e-Press (ISBN 978-947-8257-64-8). The entire book is also available in our Digital Library (see the tab above).

Please see the SASTAR WEB SITE for more information.