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IRS support for OWL-S and WSMO
This event took place on Monday 21 June 2004 at 12:30

Dr Farshad Hakimpour KMi, The Open University

There is a great deal of work on developing ontologies (such as OWL-S and WSMO) for describing semantics of Web Services. IRS is one of the few existing systems (if not the only one) to support the Semantic Web Services technologies. I will show how the underlying model of IRS (i.e. Task-PSM ontology) could support parts of OWL-S, as well as how we modified and extended the task-PSM ontology to be able to support features of OWL-S. I will also present further capability the Task-PSM ontology provides, in comparison to OWL-S. I will briefly describe the status of the current work for supporting WSMO.

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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.