We have discovered no better introduction to knowledge representation, OWL and the semantic web than that provided by our own Elisa Kendall, in concert with Deborah McGuinness of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In this presentation — given 2 weeks ago at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco — Elisa and Deborah build from simple concepts to the full complexity of OWL 2.0. Readers may also find that the presentation is an excellent reference work — an “OWL in a Nutshell” as it were.   Ontology101 20110604 kendallmcguinness View more presentations from thematixpartners   If you would like a copy of …

Thematix partners will be in attendance at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, from June 5 (tomorrow, by this post’s date) through June 9.   It is an inherently fascinating conference, which spans interests from the academic and intellectual to the pragmatic and business-focused. Thematix has four separate presentations that might be of interest (themselves having a broad span of interest): Thematix Partner Elisa Kendall has a lot to talk about.  With Deborah McGuinness, she is presenting Ontology 101, a comprehensive walk-through of OWL fundamentals.  She is also presenting a case study on ontology maintenance with Reginald Ford.  Finally, …

Thematix’s own Elisa Kendall was interviewed by SemanticWeb.com in anticipation of the upcoming Semtech conference in San Francisco,where Elisa and Robert Kost (also of Thematix) will both be speaking.   The SemanticWeb article has much to say, but the bottom line was expressed well by Elisa: “There really is a lot happening, not only at OMG but generally, and what’s nice to see is that [semantic technologies are] becoming much more accessible to a really broad range of people and application domains.”  There is, I believe, a sense that the world has finally begun to catch up with semantic technologies …