August 2009 Archives

I found the following clipping in a presentation created by Ralph Müller (Director, Eclipse Foundation) . In his presentation Ralph summarizes a few facts that aim to explain, why companies from the automotive Industry have decided to cooperate within an Open Source industry working group with the objective to define common standards for their industry. The clipping itself is from Hanse Report on Automotive Electronics.

 

To view Ralphs full presentation click here:  2009-07-30 Eclipse Industry Collaboration.pdf

Having started a discussion about the timing and opportunities of deploying semantic technologies for the enterprise in my last blog entry I though discussing this question would make all the sense in the world.

Are we ready for the semantic enterprise?

For those of you who understand German, here is a link to what initially seemed to be a provocative article. As it turns out, it was inspiring and lead me to post this question asking your help.
http://www.omnisophie.com/day_97.html
Just a little background about the author: Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck (Business Leader, Dynamic Infrastructure, IBM Germany Chief Technologist, IBM Innovation Network, Germany IBM Distinguished Engineer & Member of the IBM Academy of Technology IBM Deutschland) in other words a guy who gets paid by IBM to ask the kinds of questions they do not want to be asked.

Well, if you have had any doubts about the potential of semantic technologies then please take the time to review the below video.
If you have not got any doubts, please view the video anyway.
This is what I want my tax money to be spent on. I want research that comes up with software that will make a difference in our lives! And this type of stuff will make a huge difference!

My sincere thanks to Paolo, Giovanni and the rest of the Sindice and SIGMA team!

Sig.ma - Live views on the Web of Data from Sindice Team on Vimeo.

I have just come back from a few days of vacation during the course of which I have finally been able to catch up with some reading.
One of the most exciting and to some degree scary things I have come across was a video published by the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi).
I found this video on the website of John Dominique. John is the President of STI International a global organization with members in Europe, North America, and Asia with a mission to "make semantics real".

Future Internet from KMi on Vimeo.

Let's think about this video and its message for a moment... How do you feel about STis Vision of the future? Please feel free to comment ;-)

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