Re: Enterprise semantics

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
>
>
>


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