Resource-Oriented Architectures : Adopting the Semantic Web in the Enterprise

The seventh of a series of talks that are part of an arc covering next-generation information-oriented, flexible, scalable architectures. The ideas presented apply to both external and internal-facing systems.

While there is a lot of interest in using Semantic Technologies in the Enterprise, there is very little guidance on how to go about doing so. It sounds like a scary Big Bang change, but the truth is, there are incremental steps that can be adopted gradually.

This talk will be an introduction of how you can begin to advocate and apply Semantic Web technologies iteratively both internally and on the public Web.

Topics will include:

How to explain Semantic Web technologies to various stakeholders
Difficulties/processes faced when adopting new technologies
Mapping these technologies into existing industry trends
Adopting a Resource-Oriented view of the world
Data Integration strategies
Using RDFa
Building and extending metadata repositories that unify your documents, data and services

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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