My Corner of the Web
I was down in Florida last week speaking at the Lockheed Martin Information Technology Trends Conference 2006. The first thing that struck me is that it is impressive that the LMI CIO provides such a conference to its technical workforce. It is no trivial task to put on such a conference and the LMI folks did a superb job. There were many interesting talks on business intelligence, RFID, the FEA Data Reference Model, data governance and the Semantic Web. I especially liked the talk on moving business intelligence from strategic to operational users.
I spoke on the history, use cases and technical details of the Data Reference Model. As some of you know, I led the inter-agency working group for the Federal CIO council that revised the DRM and released the 2.0 version in December 2005. That was one reason for my selection to the Federal 100 by Federal Computer Week (be sure to see the March 20th issue that will feature the federal 100). The DRM provides an architectural pattern for optimizing data architectures for integration, interoperability and sharing.
I am speaking at several conferences in April to include two sessions at the KM 2006 conference. My KM 2006 sessions will be on person-centric knowledge management and the DRM.
Lastly, my co-authors and I have begun working on the 2nd Edition of the Semantic Web book. The next edition will be significantly expanded and focus on a concrete example (or examples) that we build-upon throughout the book. Major new developments in the RDF (Oracle support and SPARQL) and business rules (OMG and W3C standards efforts) will be covered. I will keep you up to date on our progress.