Case Studies

Sun Global Knowledge Engineering (GKE) aggregates knowledge accross Sun

• Many sources of data across organization
• Many users - customer care, preemptive care, system integration, web sites...
• Business rules
• Access control as a function of information status and person role
• "Sun [Global Knowledge Engineering (GKE)] selected RDF in order to realize full-scale, distributed knowledge aggregation."

HP and MIT library build persistent digital archive "Simile"

• RDF-based metatdata applications

Dan Connolly's trip to Budapest - in glorious Technicolor

• Flight Telex - calendar - map integration
• "Things the computer could do for me"

Public data conversions - see DAML.org site

• CIA fact book
• Timezones, Airport codes, geographic locations etc see BBN's list

RDF applications cross personal - enterprise - public boundaries