The Architectures of Information : REST, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs

Architecture is a tool of structure and facilitation. It is a set of practices designed to elicit a capacity to absorb change. The Web is one of the most successful architectures ever built and most developers still have only a weak grasp on its implications. In the new world of mass technical layoffs, it will be more important than ever for developers, technologists, and architects to do more with less. It will be crucial to demonstrate a capacity to embrace change, not fear it.

In this workshop, we will connect the architecture of the Internet to the Web to API strategies to Linked Data and finally to Knowledge Graphs as a facilitating set of choices and practices to allow our information to embrace technical and business change. We can capture value for longer.

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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