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As I reported about a year ago after my first attendance, I think the Semantic Technology Conference is the best venue going for pragmatic discussion of semantic approaches in the enterprise. I’m really pleased that I will be attending again this year. The conference (#SemTech) will be held at the Hilton Union Square in downtown San Francisco on June 21-25, 2010. Now in its sixth year and the largest of its kind, it is again projected to attract 1500 attendees or so.
I will be presenting two papers this year, covering rather dramatically different topics. Such is the business of a young company like Structured Dynamics that wears many hats!
A really exciting presentation for us is, Sizzle for the Steak: Rich, Visual Interfaces for Ontology-driven Apps, on Wed, June 23 in the 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM session.
A nagging gap in the semantic technology stack is acceptable — better still, compelling — user experiences. After our exile for a couple of years doing essential infrastructure work, we have been unshackled over the past year or so to innovate on user interfaces for semantic technologies.
Our unique approach uses adaptive ontologies to drive rich Internet applications (RIAs) through what we call “semantic components.” This framework is unbelievably flexible and powerful and can seamlessly interact with our structWSF Web services framework and its conStruct Drupal implementations.
We will be showing these rich user interfaces for the first time in this session. We will show concept explorers, “slicer-and-dicers”, dashboards, information extraction and annotation, mapping, data visualization and ontology management. Get your visualization anyway you’d like, and for any slice you’d like!
While we will focus on the sizzle and demos, we will also explain a bit of the technology that is working behind Oz’s curtain.
A more informal, interactive F2F discussion will be, MIKE2.0 for the Semantic Enterprise, on Thurs, June 24 in the 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM slot.
MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) is an open source methodology for enterprise information management that is coupled with a collaborative framework for information development. It is oriented around a variety of solution “offerings”, ranging from the comprehensive and the composite to specific practices and technologies. A couple of months back, I gave an overview of MIKE2.0 that was pretty popular.
We have been instrumental in adding a semantic enterprise component to MIKE2.0, with our specific version of it called Open SEAS. In this Face-to-Face session, experts and desirous practitioners will join together to discuss how to effectively leverage this framework. While I will intro and facilitate, expect many other MIKE2.0 aficionados to participate.
This is perhaps a new concept to many, but what is exciting about MIKE2.0 is that it provides a methodology and documentation complement to technology alone. When combined with that technology, all pieces comprise what might be called a total open solution. I personally think it is the next logical step beyond open source.
So, if you have not already made plans, consider adjusting your schedule today. And, contact me in advance (mike at structureddynamics dot com) if you’ll be there. We’d love to chat!
