1. WSMO in Knowledge Web http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d19/d19.2/ http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d19/d19.2/ 2nd SDK cluster f2f meeting Rubén Lara Digital Enterprise Research Institute ruben.lara@uibk.ac.at

2. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 2 Overview Introduction Knowledge Web overview The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web –Industry –Research –Education Conclusions and future work

3. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 3 Introduction (SEKT, DIP, Knowledge Web) SDK working group What is the role of Knowledge Web in the Semantic Web Services working group (WSMO+WSML+WSMX)? How Knowledge Web benefits from its participation in the Semantic Web Services working group of the SDK cluster?

4. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 4 Knowledge Web overview

5. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 5 Knowledge Web overview Industry –1.1 Industrial application needs –1.2 Evaluation for technology selection –1.3 Technology recommendations –1.4 Promotion of ontology technologies –1.5 Cross-network cooperation –1.6 Semantic portal infrastructure Research –2.1 Scalability –2.2 Heterogeneity –2.3 Dynamics –2.4 Semantic Web Services –2.5 Semantic Web language extensions –2.6 Towards a virtual research center Education –3.1 Foundations for Virtual Institute for Semantic Web Education (VISWE) –3.2 Educational content and event provision –3.3 Semantic delivery platform

6. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 6 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web INDUSTRY

7. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 7 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web INDUSTRY –1.1 Industrial application needs activities will provide industrial use cases to WSMO –1.3 WSMO will provide guidance to the technology recommendations of Knowledge Web in the area of Semantic Web Services –1.4 The dissemination activities that WSMO will acomplish will help the promotion tasks of Knowledge Web The promotion of ontology technologies will facilitate the adoption of the results of WSMO –1.5 WSMO will ensure a close cooperation of Knowledge Web with other projects in the context of the SDK cluster 1.5 will help to widen the cooperation of WSMO with other initiatives

8. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 8 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web Research

9. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 9 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web Research –2.5 The WSML working group is investigating refinements (subsets) of F- Logic, and it is developing proposals such as OWL-Light Clear and strong relation to the Semantic Web language extensions in Knowledge Web, and a fruitful cooperation between both efforts will be established. –2.6 The close cooperation already established within the WSMO working group will facilitate the objectives of the Knowledge Web virtual research center. 2.6 will contribute to the integration of the different research efforts of the Knowledge Web partners, having a possitive effect on the cooperation within the WSMO working group. –2.5 & 2.6 will be in direct contact with WSMO –The other WPs will be in contact with WSMO via WP 2.4 (Semantic Web Services) WP 2.4 activity will be aligned with the WSMO working group, will redirect the problems encountered in the development of WSMO to the relevant Knowledge Web activities, and will feed back the relevant results from the other research activities to the WSMO working group.

10. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 10 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web Research –2.1 will receive from WSMO use cases in the Semantic Web Services area for testing the applicability of its research results (including modularization and benchmarking), WSMO will use these results in order to be able to deal with the expected increase in the number of Semantic Web Services available, to deal with domain ontologies, and to evaluate the reuse of SW tools. –2.2 focus its research on mediation at data level. WSMO will provide problems that data mediation should solve in the area of Semantic Web Services WSMO will apply the Knowledge Web results in the definition of mediators. –2.3 investigate the evolution and evaluation of ontologies, as well as meaning negotiation. WSMO will provide use cases Important aspect for WSMO, as the domain ontologies used in the definition of Semantic Web Services might change over time. WSMO will benefit from the results

11. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 11 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web Research –2.4 Knowledge Web will benefit from the joint results that will be obtained in cooperation with SEKT and DIP The work in 2.4 will become part of the WSMO activity The Semantic Web Services WP will be in charge of distributing the results and problems from WSMO to the relevant Knowledge Web activities and it will feed back the Knowledge Web results to the WSMO working group. State of the art on Semantic Web Services Requirements for SWSs description Discovery & composition Invocation and interoperation

12. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 12 The potential of WSMO in Knowledge Web Education –The education area of Knowledge Web will include in the mid-term education materials about WSMO, and would be expected to provide professional training for companies in WSMO in order to facilitate its adoption.

13. Rubén Lara Lausanne, 14-06-2004 13 Conclusions and future work The role of WSMO in Knowledge Web will be of great relevance –providing important results and problems to the research area –cooperating with the industry area to support the adoption of WSMO in an industrial setting –The joint of WSMO towards standardization in the area of Semantic Web Services will have a big impact in industry Knowledge Web will have an active role in the development of WSMO –contributing with its research to the sucess of the initiative –supporting the dissemination of the results of the working group Future work –focused on monitoring the effective cooperation between WSMO and Knowledge Web and assuring that the results and problems flow between both is actually done. –The Semantic Web Services activity, led by DERI, will work towards these objectives, acting as the strongest (but not unique) point of union between WSMO and Knowledge Web.

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