Semantic Knowledge Services – On the Web and in the Enterprise

November 5, 2008
Danielle Forsyth and Roy Hall | Thetus

Information semantics bring the promise of ‘fitting’ information with user interests by relating meaning with metadata and driving machine based discovery, contextual search and automatically connecting information Publishers with Subscribers. Semantics can do much more; they can connect communities with different beliefs (and use the Publisher belief models to see the Subscriber information) and facilitate a user experience which brings the most semantically meaningful information to the forefront.

This presentation introduces semantic knowledge modeling principles, architectural considerations and demonstrates their uses in the enterprise and on the web.

Presentation Outline

Introduction to Thetus and Semantic Knowledge Modeling
The Road to Composite Web Applications and Semantic Knowledge Services
System Design and Design Considerations
Building Semantic Models
Examples in the Enterprise (Semantic SOAs and Composite Web Applications)
Demonstrations
Semantically Enabling Applications and Experiences

Speaker Details

Danielle Forsyth co-founded Thetus after years of experience in software engineering, marketing and management. While her career was launched at HP, the bulk of her experience is in early stage software companies with primary focus on 3D graphics and interactive systems. She has parlayed that large scale modeling experience into enterprise semantic technologies where Thetus now leads. Danielle has held key roles in the growth of Wavefront, Sketchup and Digimarc while also delivering leading edge products and technologies to Autodesk, Microsoft and others. Danielle has degrees in Math, Computer Science and Business.

Roy Hall co-founded Thetus after 25 years of 3D Graphics system design and development experience. Roy began his career as a structural engineer and designer of fabric structures. He moved into computer graphics and special effects in the early 1980’s with rendering system design positions at Robert Abel and Associates and Wavefront Technologies. He returned to teach Architecture and Computer Graphics at Cornell University. In 1993, Roy co-founded Crisis in Perspective where he built a wide range of 3D modeling, graphics library, image processing and trading applications for several software companies.