Re: Enterprise semantics

The paper is really interesting. The topic I've liked the most is that of
"Schema driven
development". I've been thinking for a while in some kind of "declarative"
way of
describing functionalities in a system, implementing some specific business
domain
functionalities and behavior, just by simply adding or removing statements.
Kind of
interpreter pattern or so. Nothing new, but this time with semantic backend
in mind.

Apart from the architectural issues regarding the two products mentioned in
the paper,
what I would like to find (or build) is a kind of framework or patterns
implementing
things such as MVC is for object oriented programming, in the semantics
field.

I'm focusing most of my ongoing efforts in develop such a framework.
Constructing a
business domain specific application in an object oriented platform is full
of examples
and tutorials on patterns of how to do it. The idea is to reach the enough
abstraction
level and depict the layers needed to do something like that with semantics..
This will
regard semantics as an "environment" in which running business application
instances could run, maybe each domain interacting with each other.

There are lots of things to be aware of, many of them away from my
knowledge. But
the ideas arising from this discussion and development here are going to be
a lot
of help for me, actually trying to learn many subjects regarding semantics
stuff.

Best,
Sebastián
http://cognescent.blogspot.com

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Michael F Uschold <uschold@gmail.com>wrote:

> Read this paper:
> http://4store.org/publications/garlik-linked-enterprise-data-2010.pdf
>
> Enterprise Linked Data as Core Business Infrastructure
> Steve Harris and Tom Ilube and Mischa Tuffield
>
> *Abstract *This chapter describes Garlik’s motivation, interest, and
> experiences of
> using Linked Data technologies in its online services. It describes the
> methodologies and approaches that were taken in order to deploy online
> services to hundreds
> of thousands of users, and describes the trade-offs inherent in our choice
> of these
> technologies for our production systems. In order to help illustrate and
> aid the arguments for the adoption of Semantic Web technologies this chapter
> will focus on two
> of our customer facing products, DataPatrol, a consumer-centric personal
> information protection product, and QDOS a Linked Data service that is used
> to measure
> peoples’ online activity.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Sebastian Samaruga <cognescent@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a real business application, framework or
>> whatever who takes 'semantic' techniques
>> or semantic back ends and triple stores for doing something useful in such
>> a way where an explicit or implicit
>> advantage over using actual RDBMSs or ORM tools can be acknowledged.
>>
>> Can 'semantics' be leveraged with such a layer in a way where the
>> 'knowledge' expressed in those triples is in
>> some way useful to an application developer who needs to expose some
>> functionality to end users in the form
>> of use-cases and there 'semantics' make a real difference?
>>
>> Aren't we needing some kind of 'on-rails' approach where we 'know' not
>> only for the pure pleasure of 'knowing'
>> but in the aim of doing something useful in the pursue of a users needs
>> requirements purpose. What we lack
>> here are application 'standards', patterns or guidelines in which one
>> could base an application development
>> specification proposal that can be presented to some manager in the hope
>> to be successfully accepted as
>> a solution addressing some needs, and not to be scared because it will
>> surely be rejected because it is not
>> an enterprise or business level specification because of being based on
>> inmature or non-standard ways.
>>
>> Are there some efforts in achieving such goals that I'm missing?
>>
>> Meanwhile, trying to oversimplify, there are some Semantic-ORM like
>> techniques we are trying to develop,
>> including a higher level object graph navigation language with semiotic
>> additions:
>> http://cognescent.googlecode.com
>>
>> Best,
>> Sebastián Samaruga - Cognescent
>> http://cognescent.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Michael Uschold, PhD
>    Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts
>    LinkedIn: http://tr.im/limfu
>    Skype, Twitter: UscholdM
>
>

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