Hi The BCS Glasgow Branch talk this monday may be of interest to some people it is on the semantic desktop:
Date Monday 6th April 2009 Location Lord Todd, University of Strathclyde Speaker Laura Dragan (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland) Synopsis: In traditional desktop architectures, applications are isolated islands of data - each application has its own data, unaware of related and relevant data in other applications. Individual vendors may decide to allow their applications to interoperate, so that e.g. the email client knows about the address book. However, today there is no consistent approach for allowing interoperation and a system-wide exchange of data between applications. The Semantic Desktop paradigm adopts the ideas of the Semantic Web paradigm and offers a solution to the data interoperability problem based on formal ontologies able to capture a shared conceptualization of desktop data in RDF (Resource Description Format), as a common data representation format. Together, these technologies provide a means to build the semantic bridges necessary for data exchange and application integration. http://www.glasgow.bcs.org/events.htm#Apr -- Kenny _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
