Archive for August, 2009

This week the 4th FOMI (Formal Ontologies Meet Industry) workshop has been organized in conjunction with the European Conference of Knowledge Management 2009 in Vicenza (Italy).

The workshop is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss application issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies.

I have just known about a very interesting project by Microsoft called Tuva. They called it an enhanced video player and looks really good.

It is implemented using Silverlight technology by Microsoft.

You can find all the information at: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Today, August the 6th, at 18:00 CEST, ontoprise will hold the 4th session of the webinars about their Semantic MediaWiki (SMW+).

Basically:

SMW+ is ontoprise’s enterprise semantic wiki that makes it easy for your team to cope with knowledge-intensive processes and to exploit the knowledge locked in content.

SMW+ combines a wiki’s social authoring approach with proven semantic technology.

This yields a powerful tool which is business-ready for your organization to:

• Create and share semantically tagged project documentation,
• Create and publish user manuals and training materials which are enriched with semantic annotations for precise retrieval, or
• Check semantically tagged content for consistency.

Todays’ webinar is titled: “Basic semantic features of SMW+”.

You can find all the information about this webinar at: http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Webinars/Schedule_of_webinars

From June 25 to 27 2009 the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies took place at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA, USA (see http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/).

The Communities and Technologies biennial international conference serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. The C&T conference addresses researchers studying aspects of this interaction between communities and technologies, regardless of disciplinary background.

A main objective of INSEMTIVES is to support user communities to contribute to user-generated semantic content. In this respect the C&T conference series seems to be a valuable source of community-related research.

The proceedings of this conference are online now, available on the Website of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI):

http://www.iisi.de/

On the IISI website you can find the proceedings of the three former C&T conferences as well.