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1 Introducing BTexact Dr John Davies Head of Advanced Business Applications

2 © British Telecommunications plc, 20032 Overview  BT, BTexact  Past and present relevant research  Objectives

3 © 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

4 © British Telecommunications plc, 20034 Our position in BT Customers Corporates & Public Sector SME Communications Service Providers CSP Partners Consumers

5 © 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

6 © 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

7 © 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

8 © 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

9 © 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

10 Thank you John Davies john.nj.davies@bt.com www.exago.com www.quizxml.com/people/JohnDavies www.ontoknowledge.org


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