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Towards Changing the Relationship between Business and IT via Semantic Web Services
This event took place on Wednesday 31 January 2007 at 11:30

 
Prof John Domingue KMi, The Open University

A number of new technologies are emerging which over the next 5-10 years will radically change the relationship between a business and its IT infrastructure. In this talk I will give an overview of the EU funded SUPER Integrated Project which aims to enable business experts to query and manage business processes which reside in IT systems without recourse to IT staff. To achieve this SUPER will combine semantic Web, Web service and business process modeling technologies. The SUPER project involves a consortium of 19 partners including SAP and a number of telecommunications companies and has now been running for 9 months.

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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.