Dave McComb (author of the book,
Semantics in Business Systems) ran a webcast last week focused on semantics in enterprise computing. The archive version is viewable here, for free:
http://media.allgames.com/wilshire/semantic.wmvAs the title suggests, the focus is enterprise computing rather than the semantic web, and from a technical standpoint it's very basic. However it should be useful if you're looking for a resource to help business people and corporate IT folks to understand semantic technology. Or indeed, if you're a semweb developer looking for some insight into corporate computing
issues.
From our perspective at Semantic Universe (we run the
Semantic Technology Conference), the ignorance and mis-conceptions amongst enterprise computing departments about the semantic web are just enormous. So hopefully we can start to fill that gap with this and future programs.
If you have any specific suggestions about the topics of future webcasts to help bridge these gaps, I'd love to hear your suggestions. Thanks,
Tony Shaw
Semantic Universe
www.semanticuniverse.comSee You at SemTech!May 18-22, 2008
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