Elisa Kendall, a Partner at Thematix, will be leading a discussion about FIBO at the FIBO Technology Summit  on June 5 in San Francisco.  The event happens concurrently with the Semantic Technology and Business Conference, and is housed within it.  The FIBO Technology Summit is an industry-only event attended by many stakeholders in the financial, semantic technologies and services, and academic communities. Elisa has been a substantial contributor to FIBO and is currently assisting the EDM Council in modularizing, transforming and validating the original model to support standardization.   More at: http://www.edmcouncil.org/semanticsrepository/tech-oo.html FIBO stands for ‘Financial Industry Business Ontology” and it is a specification undertaken by the …

  Elisa Kendall , Partner at Thematix, and Mark Linehan of IBM Research have authored a proposed mapping of the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (“SVBR”) to OWL2. The work is significant, insofar as a growing number of large businesses are increasingly relying on SVBR to describe their business processes.  The OWL version will simplify the process of description and provide a richer set of tools and, for the first time, an ability to reason over a business model to determine consistency and entailment. IBM is hosting the mapping, which is described at their site thusly: This paper proposes …

Thematix has released a draft of extensions to Schema.org that would enable hoteliers to better describe their offerings to search engines.  The extensions are designed to allow descriptions of such things as amenities, services, rooms and room rates — none of which is possible today using the existing taxonomy at Schema.org. This is important insofar as Thematix has already demonstrated that even the existing markup capabilities can significantly enhance search engine presence for hotels.  The extensions — if widely adopted and honored by search engines — would further enhance the utility of search engines by allowing searchers to, for example, …