Dear Knowledge Web Industry Board member,
Please find inline the text version of the newsletter of the Knowledge Web Industry Area.
As a member of our Industry Board, we are glad to send you this newsletter every 2 months and welcome your comments
and input. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please send a mail indicating this to nixon@inf.fu-berlin.de
Best Regards,
Lyndon Nixon
Industry Area Co-Manager
Knowledge Web NoE
http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/o2i
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KNOWLEDGE WEB INDUSTRY AREA NEWSLETTER
Issue 07/4 October 2007
EDITORIAL
As KnowledgeWeb enters the last months of funding, an important word has been raised: "Sustainability".
That means, how do we ensure that the work done in the these four years can be continued into the future,
particularly this vital work in promoting and easing the transfer of semantic technologies into enterprise environments.
On this front, we have much good news.
Firstly, we will be revamping the KnowledgeWeb Industry Portal at
http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/o2i and ensuring that it will contain all of the important results and outputs
of the Industry Area in this period. The site will continue to be hosted after the network and will exist as a
worldwide accessible reflection of the achievements and work of the Industry Area during these four years. We hope
it will become a popular location for enterprises seeking details on transfer of semantic technology, in the form of
use cases, frameworks, roadmaps etc.
Secondly, the Semantic Web Framework, which has been in development in the workpackage 1.2, will continue to be developed
as part of the newly funded NeON project (http://www.neon-project.org/). Hence, interoperable and accessible ontology tools and component frameworks - both important contributions to
the uptake of semantic technologies - will continue to be a research focus in the next years.
Thirdly, as a major output of this effort, we are preparing a Semantic Web Technology Roadmap. This
document will share important insights gained over these years from both leading researchers in the field
and pioneering enterprises. It will be printed and available in hardcopy, as well as electronically over the
Industry Portal.
Finally, a result of our workpackage 1.3 is the grounding of a new non-profit organisation for the promotion of
ontologies - the Ontology Outreach Advisory (OOA). See http://www.ontology-advisory.org/. We plan to continue
the promotion of semantic technologies to enterprises within this institution, for example, currently we migrate
our eHealth use cases to the eHealth chapter of OOA. A new Working Group will continue the efforts of workpackage 1.1
(Outreach to Industry) in the next years.
Hence, KnowledgeWeb may be coming to a close but it is clear that its impact and activities will not suddenly stop
on the 31st of December. We hope you will continue to join us in the next years through the OOA and other instruments.
In December, you will receive the final KnowledgeWeb newsletter, with a summary of achievements and pointers to the
sustainability actions I have mentioned above. In the meantime you will also be invited to
begin to participate in the OOA activities. Together, we can continue to bring semantic technologies and the business
world closer together, and make the semantic enterprise a reality.
Regards,
Dr Lyndon Nixon
Industry Area Co-Manager
SPOTLIGHT ON WP1.2 :
Interoperability of Semantic Web technology
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In the last years, two benchmarking activities were performed in
Knowledge Web for assessing and improving the interoperability of the
Semantic Web technology. Interoperability was considered in terms of
interchanging ontologies from one tool to another by using an
intermediate language, being this intermediate language RDF(S) in the
first benchmarking and OWL in the second one.
As a result, we have obtained tools and benchmark suites for automating
the interoperability evaluation and detailed results about the
interoperability of the different participating tools. 6 tools
participated in the RDF(S) Interoperability Benchmarking: 3 ontology
editors (KAON, Protégé-Frames and WebODE) and 3 ontology repositories
(Corese, Jena and Sesame). 9 tools participated in the OWL
Interoperability Benchmarking: 5 ontology editors (the NeOn Toolkit,
Protégé-Frames, Protégé-OWL, SemTalk, and WebODE), 3 ontology
repositories (Jena, KAON2 and SWI-Prolog), and 1 ontology-based
annotation tool (GATE).
The Knowledge Web deliverables D1.2.2.1.1 and D1.2.2.1.2 contain all the
information about the benchmarking activities and their results. These
deliverables are publicly available in the Knowledge Web portal and
further information can be found in the interoperability benchmarking
web page:
http://knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/benchmarking_interoperability/
The Semantic Web Framework
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Companies and individuals are switching from Semantic Web technology
consumers to producers. The Semantic Web Framework is intended to help
Semantic Web application developers when building Semantic Web
applications.
The Semantic Web Framework is a structure in which Semantic Web
applications can be organized and developed. It is a reference framework
that:
The Knowledge Web deliverables D1.2.4 and D1.2.5 provide the first and
second versions of the Semantic Web Framework, with the definitions of
its components and their dependencies, the existing implementations of
these components, and an analysis of the semantic functionalities of the
Knowledge Web use cases according to the Semantic Web Framework. These
deliverables are publicly available in the Knowledge Web portal.
SPOTLIGHT ON WP1.3 :
The second OOA Workshop at the Human Capital Summit in Maastricht on October 17 has been
a great success. Nearly thirty attendees, some from academia and most from industry,
followed the programme which was compiled of two sessions and a wrap-up.
The first session contained presentations of some relevant competency-oriented models and
frameworks. The second session saw a managed, lively discussion centered around a 'linking
ontology' which could explicitly show semantic overlaps and differences between the various
competency models/frameworks. The third wrap-up session was brief and positioned the OOA
workshop inside the HR-XML domain.
Read more at http://www.ontology-advisory.org/node/72
The OOA recently produced an roadmap about HR-semantics. The goal of this roadmap is to
identify the challenges and opportunities in applying the ontology technology in the Human
Resources domain. It can be used as a reference for both the HR and the ontology communities.
For More: http://www.ontology-advisory.org/node/31
The "Use Case Studio" is a living place where successful use cases are collected, discussed,
and promoted to industry. Research Labs are invited to submit eHealth use cases. Industrial
parties are encouraged to place comments and interact with use cases authors. Eight cases
are already published and several other are underway.
For More: http://www.ontology-advisory.org/node/32
CALL FOR ATTENDANCE
The OOA is organizing its 2nd International Workshop on
Ontology content and evaluation in Enterprise (With two tracks on Human Resources and eHealth).
This workshop takes place on November 28 and is part of the OnTheMove (OTM) in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.
For more, please see http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent07
First Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies (FIRST) workshop
located at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007)
November 11, 2007 Busan, South Korea
This Knowledge Web-supported workshop aims to gather reports from industry of
first applications of semantic technologies in the enterprise.
It gives business people the possibility to present their experiences to an audience
of Semantic Web researchers and discuss industry requirements with those who will be
generating future Semantic Web research results.
It is an unique opportunity for industry to influence the future direction of semantic
technologies and address gaps in industrial relevance of research results.
Be a part of this workshop!
ISWC 2007 registration is now open at http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/registration/registration.asp
FIRST workshop website is at http://www.disa.unitn.it/net-economy/first/index.html