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Introducing BTexact Dr John Davies Head of Advanced Business Applications
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20032 Overview BT, BTexact Past and present relevant research Objectives
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20033 Who we are Part of the €38 billion BT Group ~3000 R&D specialists - knowledge in depth and breadth Deep expertise in network engineering, ‘carrier grade’ business solutions, and business applications HQ and European base at Adastral Park, Ipswich €5 billion + of intellectual capital in the last decade (14,000 patents) Specialist labs in MIT, Boston, and Malaysian Multimedia Supercorridor, Kuala Lumpur © British Telecommunications plc 2002
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20034 Our position in BT Customers Corporates & Public Sector SME Communications Service Providers CSP Partners Consumers
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20035 BTexact, KM & the Semantic Web Advanced Business Applications group Long term involvement in WWW-based KM - Virtual Communities of Practice (Jasper) - Information overload (ViewSum, ProSearch) - spin-off company Exago (www.exago.com) 12 patents, ~50 publications OntoKnowledge project - technology and case study partner - QuizRDF and OntoShare systems developed - buy the book! VISION
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20036 BT SWS project Applying SW capability to Web Services Current activity - Directory of ~50 web services - Examples of SW Service (DAML-S) - Part of SWWS EU 5FP consortium - Identify technical barriers to exploitation - Identify commercial models - Tracking WSMF/DAML-S etc
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20037 Semantic Web DAML-S Language to express web services, enabling: - Automatic discovery Find a book selling service - Automatic invocation Purchase the latest Semantic Web book - Automatic composition and interoperation Purchase the cheapest latest Semantic Web book which can be delivered within 48 hours - Automatic execution monitoring What is the status of my book order? - No mediation (for example) -> WSMF
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20038 DAML-S: composite service example sending SMS document summary to named user ProSum text mobile number summary sent via SMS query status sms Directory User ID
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© British Telecommunications plc, 20039 Objectives To continue our work on - SW-enabled Web Services - Semantic Knowledge Technologies in a wider context To understand potential application areas - gaps in current technology - benefits to be gained To develop relevant tools and validate them via use cases To track and contribute to emerging standards in the area
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Thank you John Davies john.nj.davies@bt.com www.exago.com www.quizxml.com/people/JohnDavies www.ontoknowledge.org
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