For further information on the content of this webpage or contributions to the page please contact the following people.
John Davies, BT john.nj.davies at bt.com
Santi Ristol, ATOS Origin santi.ristol at atosorigin.com
Tomás Pariente, ATOS Origin tomas.parientelobo at atosorigin.com
The NESSI Semantic Technologies Working Group is pleased to launch a call for short position papers to all WG members and organizations interested in contributing to our WG. A template has been distributed with the guidelines and the form prepared to collect the expertise and research interests of your organizations. After gathering this information we will prepare a short summary with the mapping of interests and expertise that will help all of us in many ways (roadmap of the group, future research, new proposals, etc.).
The idea is every organization to produce a very short paper following the instructions and the format given in the attached document. Hopefully it will take you very little time. The deadline for sending this position paper to the WG leaders is 21st of November 2008.
Please click here to download it.
A conference call of the WG took place the 4th of November. We did not discuss the semantics of the American elections , but the process to revise the roadmap of the WG and the possibility of detecting new research lines and gaps in the current research areas.
A F2F meeting has been planned in parallel to the Semantic Wave conference in Madrid (10-14 December).
Please, click here to download the minutes of the 4/11 conference call.
The NESSI Semantic Technology Working Group held a special workshop in association with the Future Internet Symposium in Vienna on Tuesday, 30th September from 14.00 - 16.00. Santi Ristol from ATOS Origin chaired the sessions. Presentations were made by John Domingue (SOA4All, a NESSI Strategic Project), Bernhard Schreder from Austrian SME Hanival, Patrick Gatellier (THALES), and Tomás Pariente (ATOS Origin). Please, click here to download the agenda of the seminar.
The European Commissions' Software and Service Architectures unit have announced the formation of a Semantic Technologies and Ontologies Working Group chaired by Prof John Domingue of the UK's Open University. The NESSI Semantic Technology WG is in discussion with this group regarding future collaboration.
The NESSI Semantic Technology WG will hold a face to face meeting at the IST2006 conference in Helsinki. The meeting will be on Wednesday 22 November in Helsinki
NESSI Semantic Strategic Project
SOA4All is a NESSI Strategic Project with semantic technology at its heart. SOA4All's stated objective is to realise a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced web technology: while service orientation is widely acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize IT by abstracting from the underlying hardware and software layers, its success depends on resolving challenges in the areas of scalability, dynamicity, heterogeneity, distributivity and openness not handled by today's SOA technology. These are the challenges SOA4All will address.
Context
During the last half decade there has been very significant progress in the development of semantic technology worldwide, both in the standardisation of languages such as RDF and OWL by the W3C and in the creation of commercial organisations to exploit the technology. There remain significant research and implementation challenges.