I was reminded of the importance of semantics at the coffee break at this morning’s Semantic Technology Conference when I watched a fellow attendee nearly succeed in unscrewing the tap on the coffee urn (instead of simply pulling the tap). Meaning is everything. Meanwhile, Harold Boley, Adrian Paschke and myself are presenting this afternoon on the possibilities of Semantic CEP. This morning 2 of the W3C RIF co-chairs presented on the W3C Rule Interchange Format and other rule standards, to a good crowd that seemed at least 10x in number compared to the related OMG event earlier this week.
I’ve only had a brief wander around the exhibition hall here; some of the ontologists involved in “government projects” mentioned that good use was being madein those projects of TIBCO BusinessEvents CEP technology. I’m not convinced the semantics world is ready to wake up to “events” and “event processing” yet though (with a few honorable exceptions). I guess we’ll find out later 🙂
