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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=65&proposalid=4600\nAll large organizations (and many small ones) struggle to effectively deal with distributed information, which is extremely costly to their business.  Every business unit is its own silo of information.  ?Sales? does not speak the same language or use the same systems as ?operations?, yet they are undoubtedly related.  An inability to understand these relationships leads to an inability to make good decisions.\nSemantic technologies were created to solve the problems of distributed information.  The use case presented in this talk will explain how OWL ontologies are used to describe what the data means and what it is related to.  The talk will also describe how ontologies can be layered to describe other important aspects of a data environment, including provenance, business rules, data quality rules, and system architectures.  The use of RDF and SPARQL for accessing and combining distributed data, which provides the groundwork for the ontologies to be deployed, will also be covered.\nThis main topics of this talk are:\n? The use of OWL for defining terminology within a domain (building a Domain Ontology)\n? Modeling best practices\n? Ontology management\n? Collaborative development\n? The use of RDF, SPARQL and R2RML, with OWL, for enabling federated data access\n? The use of RIF and OWL for: \n? OWL-based inference\n? Data validation\n? Policy enforcement\n? The use of OWL for describing:\n? Provenance\n? Data Quality\n? System Architectures
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SUMMARY:Ontology-driven Distributed Information Management
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