introducing btexact dr john davies head of advanced business applications
TRANSCRIPT
Introducing BTexact
Dr John DaviesHead of Advanced Business Applications
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 2
Overview
BT, BTexact Past and present relevant research Objectives
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 3
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
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 4
Our position in BTCustomers
Corporates & Public Sector
SME
CommunicationsService
Providers
CSP Partners
Consumers
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 5
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
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 6
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
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 7
Semantic WebDAML-S
Language to express web services, enabling:- Automatic discovery
Find a book selling service
- Automatic invocationPurchase the latest Semantic Web book
- Automatic composition and interoperationPurchase the cheapest latest Semantic Web book which
can be delivered within 48 hours
- Automatic execution monitoringWhat is the status of my book order?
- No mediation (for example) -> WSMF
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 8
DAML-S: composite service examplesending SMS document summary to named user
ProSum
text
mobile
number
summary
sent via SMS
query status
sms
Directory
User ID
© British Telecommunications plc, 2003 9
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
Thank you
John [email protected]
www.exago.comwww.quizxml.com/people/JohnDavieswww.ontoknowledge.org