Thread:Talk:SMWCon Spring 2014/Topic suggestion - applied semantics/reply (5)

Actually, David, I've been thinking about this, and I think it might be a good idea for me to try to make the conference. I'll put my name down tentatively, but the main issue would be funding. If there was interest, I'd be happy to talk about the various healthcare issues that I've encountered and to explore possible ways that these could be addressed. I'm also quite interested in a quite different use of the SMW. I'm one of the founder members and organisers of a team that's working, with crowd-sourceing now, to produce an ontology for services. At the moment we're working on the meta-model, and the next step will be to start developing, or helping develop, architectures based on that, from which we intend to develop an ontology, or ontologies. We're using the SMW as a collaboration platform now ( http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki//index.php?title=Adaptive_Service_Model ) but one of the reasons for doing that is that I'd like to explore developing the ontology in the SMW, which I think would be more approachable and easier to use than RDF repositories or triplestores. Something like this http://ontorule-project.eu/showcase/AUDI_Business_Orchestration_Scenario - but with the ontology kept as properties and, ideally, views produced automatically in BPMN (not as in the ontorule project as included static graphics files).

If it there was interest, might the conference be able to help a speaker with travel and accommodation?