Cool, Thanks for the heads up. I'll have a look in if i can get away from work in time.
It's an interesting topic. On 2 Apr, 13:19, Kenny Duffus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
