RivCom Consultant Published in ‘Semantic Web for Business’

A description and explanation of the technical solution used by the MYCAREVENT project to provide a single point of access to automotive repair information has just been published in a new book focusing on the application of Semantic Web technologies to solve business problems. The chapter, co-authored by RivCom consultant Jay Cousins and Martin Bryan, explains how the EC research project  developed a web-based portal that allowed users to search  and retrieve content made available from multiple sources in different languages and formats. The MYCAREVENT technical solution levered Semantic Web technologies as part of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) architecture, using an integrated vocabulary to facilitate targeted search, description, and discovery of information, allowing the MYCAREVENT users to iteratively refine their search to retrieve the required repair information.The technical solution used by MYCAREVENT is described in the chapter ‘Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Car Repairs’ in the book Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications, edited by Roberto García of the Universitat de Lleida, Spain. The book is published by  the Information Science Reference imprint of IGI Global in October 2008.