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I just got the invitation for this years semantic web days in Leipzig and wanted to let you know that they have done a wonderful job at getting an interesting mix of technical speakers and business/industry/government use-case presentations. The eccenca team will be present as well and will provide a short presentation of its vision of how the Eclipse.org project SMILA (semantic information logistics architecture) will fill the gap between the semantic web and today's enterprise IT infrastructure.
General information on the event including registration can be found at: http://aksw.org/LSWT The eccenca/SMILA presentation will take place on Mai 6th at 11:45 am.

I will be there for the evening session on the 5th and would like to invite everyone to participate in a discussion of how semantic technology can become a key success factor to the enterprise. Every reasonable suggestion will automatically result in an invitation to have a few beers with me;-)
 
Looking forward to seeing you there,

Chris Brockmann

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Visit us March 22nd - 25th at EclipseCon 2010 in Santa Clara, California.

Sebastian Voigt is our speaker at the convention. He will present "Searching the Cloud - the EclipseRT Umbrella! " together with Igor Novakovic from Empolis and Markus Knauerfrom EclipseSource. We are looking forwar to seeing you in Santa Clara!

A good old German proverb is: "Better late than never!" and I would like to ask you to apply this notion to this delayed posting of my fifty cents about the Boston event.
Before going into some details about interesting people I have met during the conference I want to salute Harry Collier and his team for having managed to once again make these three days very special to all of us.  What I found particularly charming about the event was what I would like to call a constructive openness. Even though most of us present could be considered competitors, the atmosphere was filled with a free flow of ideas, sharing of best practices and constructive discussions.
Here is a link to the agenda and online versions of the presentations. (Infonortics Agenda) For those who could not make it this is a wonderful way of sharing at least some of the good stuff that was presented.

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.

Georg Schmidt (brox) and Igor Novacovic (empolis) will give a demo on the 7th international Semantic Web Conference in Karlsruhe (CongressCenter), Germany.

ISWC 2008 will hold a combined poster and demonstration session on Tuesday, October 28 at 6:30 pm. The Poster/Demo Session is an opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work.

The paper can already be downloaded at the ISWC Website.

Abstract: An important requirement to the enterprise IT is the ability to manage information with high flexibility. Semantic web research and resulting technologies are therefore getting more and more vital within business processes. One question is how to get the research work - done at universities or within corporations - into the enterprise easily. One possible answer to this question is the availability of an open source information processing framework, which meets the requirements of an enterprise. This framework should be mature and flexible enough to design any application. To move towards such a flexible architecture, which is able to process vast amounts of information in an enterprise, a joint development by brox and Empolis, has been started on Eclipse.

Yesterday I visited the Systems Fair in Munich. It used to be the second most important IT trade show in Germany and one of the most important ones in Europe.
I myself have been questioning the benefit of having two trade shows (Cebit and Systems) in a small country like Germany and so have been many of the visitors of whom there have been less and less over the past few years. First the number of visitors dropped, a little later the number of exhibitors dropped also. A downward spiral began that seemingly would only find its end in the cancellation of the entire event. Just on the one day, when I changed my mind about the concept and importance of the event the news came out that this is going to be the last SYSTEMS fair.

I find this information sad. As a matter of fact I am convinced that everyone who visited and exhibited at this years SYSTEMS fair will wonder if or why this should be the end. The atmosphere in the fairground, the crowds of visitors at pretty much every booth, the confidence in the market, the value of available solutions and the interest of the attending audience were in extreme contrast to the goings on in the financial markets.

Overall the atmosphere reminded me of the good old days of CEBITs that I used to regularly attend in the 80s and 90s. Exhibitors with full order books and exciting solutions and customers who seemed to feel that they were part of a rebirth of an industry. It really made my mind spin. With SYSTEMS taking place in only 4-5 halls each being the size of a soccer field, it provided a cozy atmosphere to the visitor long lost in CEBITs overwhelming size.

Especially in my field of interest (document management, storage management, workflow and BPM) the attending vendor booths were well received by the visitors and those vendors I had a chance to speak with were more than satisfied with the attendance and lead generation.