Pat Barkman

3rd Party Organization

email: q12011-at-tranquiltree.com

My technology background includes 20+ years of software development and software/hardware integration; web-based for the past decade or so. The most relevant to this work would probably be my participation on the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee where I worked on the Standard for Learning Object Metadata back in the days when Online Universities were still in the embryonic stage.

Our organization has a dataset that encompasses/blends several disciplines: Physics, Biology, Cosmology and others. As a result our semantics are very unique and therefore integrate poorly with existing ontological data. Our interest is to remediate the disconnection.

Our use cases are: 1) Produce a Topic Page as output from an Ontology to facilitate SEO 2) Multilingual search functionality (against an all-english data set) 3) Enhance our own internal search capability