Posts Tagged ‘Semantic Technology’
The Spring 2009 issue of PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Technology Forecast focuses on semantic technology. It features an interview with Zepheira partner Uche Ogbuji and highlights Zepheira’s overall contributions. In the interview, ‘From folksonomies to ontologies’, Mr. Ogbuji discusses how early adopters are introducing Semantic Web to the enterprise, ‘[describing] department-level Linked Data initiatives and how grassroots efforts can lead to companywide successes’. He focuses on the balance of technical and social matters within the firewall, and overall on pragmatics rather than technological purity.
Zepheira partners Eric Miller, Uche Ogbuji, and David Wood were speakers at Wilshire’s Enterprise Data World conference held in Tampa, FL from April 5-9, 2009.
David Wood was a panel member of Issues Forum: Opportunities for Semantic Technologies within Enterprise Data Management along with Tony Shaw, Wilshire Conferences, Inc., Kevin Lynch,Central Intelligence Agency, and Sanjiva Nath, zAgile. This forum was designed to bridge the gap in understanding and start the conversation to build meaningful partnerships between enterprise customers and semantic developers.
Kathy MacDougall, Zepheira Principal and founding Product Manager for the swoRDFish Metadata Initiative, has co-authored The swoRDFish Metadata Initiative: Better, Faster, Smarter Web Content ith current swoRDFish Product Manager, Susie Cone of Sun Microsystems, Inc.. This case study outlines the way in which Sun Microsystems uses Semantic Web technologies to integrate various types of product-related information held in many systems across the company and drive dynamic delivery of this content to its external web properties. The paper was prepared for W3C’s Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, which recently launched a site—Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group: Case Studies and Use Cases—to showcase how Semantic Web technologies are providing value in a variety of organizations.
David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, has been invited to join the program committe for the workshop FIRST (First Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies), to be held in conjunction with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2007. This workshop aims to have presentations from industry reporting on early adoption of semantic technologies. The audience will be researchers who will learn what industry needs from their research. It is being organized by Lyndon Nixon of Free University Berlin, Roberta Cuel of University of Trento and Claudio Bergamini of Imola Informatica, Italy.
David Wood, a partner in Zepheira, was recently interviewed for a full length news feature to appear in the July-August edition of IEEE Software. The feaure will explore how and if the concepts and technologies in the Semantic Web are affecting, or will affect, the discipline of software engineering. David attracted the interest of the editors after his paper Toward a Software Maintenance Methodology using Semantic Web Techniques was presented at Software Evolvability 06.