Not every part of an ontology is novel. Often enough we reuse existing works and standards to populate them. At other times the ontology implements policies and processes that are outlined in a document narrative but never before formalised into a data structure. To give credit where credit is due, and to ensure policy compliance, it can be worthwhile to integrate bibliographic citations and references directly within the ontology. Ontologies already exist to record bibliographic data.

The US Semantic Technologies Symposium was held at Wright State University a month ago where there were great discussions with Craig Knoblock about SPARQL servers reliability1, Eric Kansa about storing archeology data and Open Context, Eric Miller about the workings of the W3, mid West farmers and old bikes, Matthew Lange about tracking crops with LOD and a 'fruitful' talk with Evan Wallace about farm data storage standards. 

Thinking through these conversations, I decided to outline what I think are the troubling conclusions for our area, namely that a) Semantic Web adoption is lagging, b) we keep rehashing old problems without moving on and c) our ongoing lack of support for our own projects after which I'll suggest a few solutions.