From: MacPherson, Deborah Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 5:19 PM To: Ontology Summit Subject: RE: [ontology-summit] Fwd: Get Real-World Semantic Technology Case Studies in San Francisco this June 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 DEBORAH MACPHERSON, CSI CCS, AIA Specifications and Research Cannon Design 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 2900 Arlington, Virginia 22209 Direct Line 703 907 2353 4 Digit Dial 6353 dmacpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cannondesign.com ? Please consider the environment before printing this email. From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit- bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael F Uschold Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:32 AM To: Ontology Summit Subject: [ontology-summit] Fwd: Get Real-World Semantic Technology Case Studies in San Francisco this June 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. 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