(4440) Introduction to Semantic Web: ideas, platforms and APIs

Technical long talk 50 min

Thursday, 2008-06-26, 15:00 - 15:50, Arena 3

Giovanni Tummarello - DERI Galway (speaker)

Topics

• Experimenting
• Collaboration tools
• Databases

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Abstract

Almost 50 millions Semantic Web documents are available on the Web in RDF format 
and can be readily used into applications or web sites. Similarly, exposing 
one’s data as Semantic Web data has an unprecedented potential for advertising 
products and services.

In this presentation I will specifically:

*       Give a pragmatic introduction to the Semantic Web Initiative and the 
existing technologies.
*       Illustrate some java tools to build applications and web sites using 
semantic web data. Among these Sindice, DBin (a rich platform based on Eclipse), 
Semantic Web Pipes
*       Show how to publish Semantic Web data in a way which is both efficient 
and guarantees maximum precision and recall when harvested by clients or 
semantic web enabled Search Engines thanks to the Semantic Sitemap Extension.


The presentation will be largely demo driven, with several third parties 
applications being shown both publishing and reusing data leveraging the above 
technologies.