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Hallo Zusammen,

Ihr werdet vielleicht bemerkt haben, dass wir in Sachen Corporate Identity gerade ganz schön am Rad drehen. Ja, die bekannten Zeichen und Logos von }}} eccenca gehören ab dem 24. September der Vergangenheit an. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt möchten wir schrittweise einige große interne Veränderungen nun auch durch eine Veränderung unseres Auftritts sichtbar machen.

Die wichtigsten Punkte im Überblick:

1. Produkt-Strategie:
   
   • eccenca Enterprise Edition: Informationslogistik in Sinne der Erschließung unstrukturierter Datenstände auf Basis der SMILA Architektur bleibt für uns ein wichtiges Standbein.
     
   • eccenca Linked Data Suite: Informationslogistik im Sinne der Erschließung und automatischen Verarbeitung von strukturierten Datenbeständen kommt als zweites Standbein hinzu.
     
     
2. Organisatorische Aufstellung:
   
   • Neben den bereits bestehenden Standorten in Hannover, Wolfsburg und Stuttgart kommt nun Leipzig als neuer Standort für unsere Forschung und Produktentwicklung hinzu.
     

Im Rahmen diese Blogs werden wir in den nächsten Tagen und Wochen immer mehr Details zu der weiteren Entwicklung preisgeben. In der Zwischenzeit lade ich Euch ein, uns auf der SABRE in Leipzig zu besuchen.. Und nicht vergessen: Reserviert hier ein T-Shirt in Eurer Größe, welches Ihr dann in Leipzig persönlich in Empfang nehmen könnt!

We have just release Version 1.1 of eccenca. It contains a lot of bugfixes because it is based on a new SMILA revision.

Please try it eccenca 1.1 and give us feedback:
http://download.eccenca.com/

See the Release Notes

Following article has just appeared in the German Management Magazine Chefbuero

brox-Artikel Chefbüro 08-09.pdf

Click here to read the full coverage at heise (german).

 

We are glad to see that SMILA also gains momentum in german press: I just received my copy of the Feb. Issue of Eclipse Magazine which features SMILA together with other Eclipse frameworks like Swordfish, Riena, Ingres CAFÉ ...

I espacially love the German Interview-headline citing Chris with this: "The World needs an Open Standard for Information Logistics".

Attensity and living-e - Two Powerful Partners Join SMILA

The Open Source Initiative, SMILA "SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture", was mutually launched at the end of 2007 by brox IT Solutions GmbH, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and empolis to create a standardized infrastructure for information management. The "eclipse Foundation" was chosen as a platform for the initiative. The eclipse community consists of more than 180 companies and research institutions, as well as countless private users worldwide, which all have the common objective of developing open and standardized platforms. Since June 2008, SMILA attained the status of an official eclipse project http://www.eclipse.org/smila/ and is co-funded through the THESEUS project by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).

I have been discussing progress in semantic knowledge structures with Entrepreneur and Researcher Sam Chapman of K-Now who has recently left the University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, in the United Kingdom to go full-time into the delivery of semantic technologies in the enterprise. His attendance at the ISWC 2008 has created some momentum to engage new corporations in a discussion on a recently presented paper on "Creating and Using Organisational Semantic Webs in Large Networked Organisations" by Ravish Bhagdev, Ajay Chakravarthy, Sam Chapman, Fabio Ciravegna and Vita Lanfranchi. Knowledge management has shifted as evidenced in his paper. He contends with others that a more localized approach based on a particular perspective of the world in which one operates is far more useful than a centralized company view. All-encompassing ontologies are not the answer, according to Chapman. In the paper, his team indicates:

A challenge for the Semantic Web is to support the change in knowledge management mentioned above, by defining tools and techniques supporting: 1) definition of community-specific views of the world; 2) capture and acquisition of knowledge according to them; 3) integration of captured knowledge with the rest of the organisation's knowledge; 4) sharing of knowledge across communities.

This morning the development-team of SMILA recieved the good news right before weekend via Leo Sauermann of german "DFKI" (german research center for artificial intelligence). DFKI just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation to support SMILA. Today's Announcement sounded like this within Leo's email:

Hi SMILA,

As of yesterday, we have changed the license of the Aperture project to BSD.

Ed Merks' remarks can be found over here. This is his takeaway about SMILA:

"The integration of disparate sources of information across the enterprise is key issue to many. The same information can be interpreted in different ways and often separate sources of information need to be related as if they originated from a uniform semantic source. The SMILA approach is focused on this. The idea is to create a shared architecture standard.

 

As Stephen Arnold blogged already, Georg Schmidt and Igor Novakovic will do a webinar about SMILA. Maybe a good alternative for everyone who cannot attend Eclipse Summit Europe next Week and talk to SMILA developers directly there. The Webinar is on December 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm Etc/GMT-5. You can register over here at Eclipse Live.