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MARINER
MBy Shanghai Sunl ine Co.,Ltd
STASIS
Semantics?Treat Me Gently
A Users View
Gash Bhullar – Director TANet
(Technology Application Network Limited)
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MBy Shanghai Sunl ine Co.,Ltd
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Semantics – A Users Viewpoint
Semantics – All about interpretations
Does the word mean the same thing when it comes into the computing domain?
Managing expectations – users expect systems that can understand their terminology automatically
How difficult can it be to write a bit of code to connect or map one system to another?
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OK – So its not as simple as it looks
We certainly take our brains for granted – LastName, SurnameName, FamilyName same thing right?
Surely its obvious that Business Address is the same as Company Address?
So what about a random term such as “ball joint” now you could have many interpretations depending on your viewpoint or even discipline
How do you overcome these complexities and how many possible combinations are there to interpreting the same thing?
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Getting to the specifics
Businesses are always looking to trade electronically with each other and they expect to exchange all types of information ranging from Orders, Customer data, Addresses etc
They expect systems that will understand their specific terminologies and link them to other systems with minimal effort
They don’t want to understand the technical jargon and complexities of XML, EDI, Ontology stuff etc
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So how is Semanticsgoing to save the world?
Users can understand the concepts behind the semantics approach but they don’t want to know how they work – just to take advantage of them
Semantics is something that users just expect to be as part of all future applications, it will be taken for granted just like other technologies
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Semantics – the gentle approachUsers need to understand the difference between syntax based and semantic based systems in terms of market advantage and not technical excellence.
The explosion of web services will throw up large amounts of data to be mapped and rationalised, its not obvious to users that behind the scenes, semantics will be playing its part
Users need to be aware of semantics through gentle answers and not be blinded by science – so how do you sell semantics?
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MBy Shanghai Sunl ine Co.,Ltd
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Semantics?Treat Me Gently – Thank you!
A Users View
Gash Bhullar – Director TANet
(Technology Application Network Limited)