Experiencing the Semantic Web
If you attended the “Introducing the Semantic Web” talk or have been paying attention, you understand where much of the current Web falls down. By building on languages like RDF and OWL our software will be able to do more for us to improve search and knowledge discovery. This talk is a more hands on introduction to using the core technologies of the Semantic Web for managing, storing querying and inferencing over metadata.
The audience will learn about
- The technology stack used by the Semantic Web including RDF, RDFS, and OWL
- Tools and technologies for creating, storing, manipulating and querying this data using the new SPARQL
- Managing and debugging ontologies
- Converting non-RDF data sources into RDF
- Using reasoners and inference engines to derive facts that are not explicitly stated
About Brian Sletten
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
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