[iaoa-general] Cloud Services and Semantic Interoperability (Ontology Summit 2016)

[Michael Gruninger]

A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016:

Cloud Services and Semantic Interoperability

Session Chairs: Mark Underwood and Todd Schneider

Two important consequences of the “cloudification” of computing are  
DevOps and an API-first (espoused by Intel’s Brian Krzanich) design  
philosophy. While SOA and “composable services” introduced many of the  
same concepts in earlier generations (indeed, both DevOps and  
API-first steal from well-burnished concepts), the level of adoption  
across software and data providers is unprecedented. Computing  
environments for large scale projects can be stood up in minutes,  
tested and disposed of the following day. Products like Zapier and  
IFTTT allow for orchestration of cloud services across providers. The  
Zapier App Directory offers around 100 integrations. Interop exists  
across platforms (as in hybrid cloud storage), applications (e.g.,  
between QuickBooks and a telephony app like DialMyCalls), and also  
what some are calling “cognitive services.”  Cloudify suggests using  
TOSCA (a cloud orchestration standard) to connect  resources like  
OpenStack or VMware using open source tools.)
Github repositories can store ontologies, but can this be scaled up to  
build applications, sharing ontologies within or across domains?  Will  
developers tempted to use ontologies be able to gain the same  
productivity benefits they experience elsewhere with cloud services?  
We ask a few vendors

Speakers:
* Peio Popov (OntoText)
* David Price (TopQuadrant)
* Mark Underwood (Krypton Brothers)

Date: Thursday, 03-Mar-2016
Start Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 1630 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=03&year=2016&hour=12&min=30&sec=0&p1=179

All other details can be found at
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_03_03


- Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger
Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016