SemTech 2011 Case Studies

[Amanda Vizedom <amanda.vizedom@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it does need to be clear, as much as is feasible. One recurring problem, at least 'round these parts, involves some decision makers being sold on the benefits of semantic technologies without such clarity, and then (a) thinking that they can implement a minimally semantic solution and expect the capabilities of a much richer approach, whether due to their own confusion or some shifty salesmanship, and (b) being angry, disappointed, and skeptical of all semantic technology when the magic doesn't happen.

Ideally, we'd do well to tie clusters of benefits to points, or regions, in the space of the Ontology Usage Framework (OUF?). Not only would such specificity better reflect reality and avoids the problem above, but also it could be helpful to those earnestly trying to figure out what approach they need once they are mostly sold on some kind of semantics.  Practically, of course, the granularity of such clustering and association is variable. But relating the use cases to the OUF is one way to make a step in that direction.

Amanda

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 19:44, Rex Brooks <rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good point, Deborah,

Open Linked Data as distinct from data that is based on an ontology is something we might want to consider as part of next year's Summit, though I'm not sure what theme would be needed to make these distinctions.

WRT this year's Summit, I wonder if it needs to be clear when making the case for ontology to distinguish ontology from various semantic web technologies.

Cheers,
Rex

On 4/15/11 2:18 PM, MacPherson, Deborah wrote:

I talked with Bart van Leeuwen on Skype yesterday to learn more about what they are working on since there are overlaps with Open Floor Plan Display / Exchange and current needs for the National Building Information Modeling Standard.

 

He is using RDF for Open World Assumption reasons - and loves RDF because it serves his communication needs. For example they needed to respond to a car stuck on top of a building, and other situations that don't make any sense in the human world and would be passed over or rejected by machines as "not valid". Linked Open Data is also very useful to their efforts.

 

It still is a valuable Case Study and it will be interesting to see the full presentation but Michael Uschold's comment may be correct that they are semantic technologies rather than ontologies per se.

 

Clearing up this distinction would be worthy to capture in the Communique

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FYI.  As usual, it is not clear which of these uses ontologies, as opposed to rdf and other semantic technologies. For example, . I believe that the firefighting one does not use ontologies.

 

Michael 

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SemTech 2011 Case Studies

SemTech features leaders in semantic technology offering real-world examples and tactical take-aways. Our experts go beyond the technical talks to deliver business case studies that highlight real-world semantic technology applications. For the full program, visit the site.

Case Studies Include:

The Next Generation Consumer Business Semantically Enabled for Real-Time Intelligence
Optimizing customer oriented businesses requires real time contextual customer knowledge across all business channels. Bill Guinn, Amdocs Product Business Unit, will demonstrate what Amdocs has accomplished with real-time semantic technology, capable of directly driving the largest businesses in the world. Results include massive cost reductions, improvements in customer care, better retention, up selling, and resource utilization.

Fighting Fires Using Semantic Web Technology
Hear how the Fire Department Amsterdam-Amstelland is innovating the way it deals with information about how fire fighters are called to incidents. Bart van Leeuwen, Brandweer Amsterdam-Amstelland and Adrian Gschwend, netlabs.org will share how the Fire Department uses a navigation assistant which uses Semantic Web Technologies/Open Data and is based on some of the innovative concepts created by netlabs.org.

Linked Open Data for Food and Agriculture Country Profiles
The Linked Open Data cloud allows organizations like the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to dramatically extend and complement the information provided to decision-markers by selecting and integrating resources from the LOD's large and inoperable information base. Marta Iglesias Sucasas and Soonho Kim of FAO share real world examples and insight.

Practical Business Uses of RDFa: Search Engines and Beyond
Best Buy's Jay Myers, Lead Web Development Engineer, will delve into the real-world applications of RDFa not only for search engine optimization, but also as a data source for web applications, to replace/augment traditional data APIs (XML/JSON) with "Human-Readable" APIs that are also accessible to machines, and more.

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Enterprise Applications	Marketing & Advertising
Web Applications	Collaboration & Wikis
Semantic Information Architecture	Web Authoring and Publishing
Content Management	Open Government
Enterprise Data Management	Project Management and Implementation
Linked Data	Visualization
Search	Reasoning and Inference
Semantics for SEO	Real-time and Continuous Semantics
Knowledge Engineering and Management	Products and Tools
Social Networks	User Interfaces
Text Analysis	Standards
Rules	Industry and Business Trends
Quality	Networked Knowledge
Trust and Provenance	Web Service
Security	Semantic Software Development
Personal Data and Identity

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