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There were some questions we did not get to during the hour, and Bob has been kind enough to answer these offline.

BONUS Q&A with Bob DuCharme:

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The software that runs computers is getting smarter every day. Semantic technology allows computers to understand the meaning of words —content and context— helping put users in touch with the right information at the right time.

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In today’s connected online world, to optimize a customer oriented business requires real time contextual customer knowledge across all business channels and relevant social and competitive forces. continued…

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NOTE: This webcast is presented here in three parts.

The slides used in the presentation are available here: http://ktk.netlabs.org/misc/SemanticWeb-Webcast.pdf

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DESCRIPTION: If own or manage a web site that contains information about products or services, you can add a relatively small amount of markup to existing HTML, and have semantic information that both Google and other semantic applications will be able to process. Many Web search engines, smart phone apps, and even cutting-edge applications like augmented reality search for and use this type of markup.

Adding semantic markup provides an improved display of the information in Google search results, providing an inherent SEO benefit. This is the same technology being successfully used by BestBuy, Overstock.com, and many others. continued…

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Presenters:

James Leigh
Independent Software Consultant
James Leigh is an independent Software Consultant based in Toronto. James is a co-creator of Callimachus and is involved in other public semantic Web projects, such as the PURL server and Sesame store. James has been building web applications for ten years with emphasis on performance and technology integration. His experience modelling business problems and concepts in software has enabled his clients to rapidly move from concepts to prototypes to production systems.

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How will the semantic web change advertising and marketing? At this year's Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, we'll have 15 sessions that explore the state-of-the-art of semantic web and linked data technologies in the realm of digital marketing. In this advance webinar, we'll give you a sneak preview of the topics that will be covered at the conference, including semantic advertising networks, Google Rich Snippets, GoodRelations linked data in e-commerce at BestBuy, semantics in social media, marketing in semantic search, data as a new marketing channel, and more.

Presenters:

Scott Brinker
ion interactive
Scott is the co-founder and chief technology officer of ion interactive, a leading SaaS provider of post-click marketing services. ion’s customers including leading marketing organizations from American Greetings to Wyndham Worldwide. He has worked at the intersection of marketing and online technology for over 15 years.

He also writes a blog, Chief Marketing Technologist (http://www.chiefmartec.com), that discusses strategic issues in marketing technology and management. One of his key topics has been “data web marketing,” how linked data and semantic web technologies will impact digital marketing.

Scott frequently speaks at marketing conferences such as SMX and SES, has published articles in Advertising Age and Adweek, and is a regular columnist at the blog Search Engine Land.

He has a BS in Computer Science from Columbia and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

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In 2008-2009, Lee Feigenbaum gave a series of presentations (PART I; PART II) for Semantic Universe on SPARQL, the query language of the Semantic Web. This year, SPARQL is going through some major updates with the release of SPARQL 1.1, and in this webcast, Lee has agreed to revisit the topic to discuss specifically some of what has changed. Lee will use real queries that can be run against real data on the Web to demonstrate the structure and features of SPARQL. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: "What's coming in SPARQL 1.1?" http://www.slideshare.net/LeeFeigenbaum/sparql2-status "SPARQL By Example" http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/2008/09/sparql-by-example "SPARQL Cheat Sheet" http://www.slideshare.net/LeeFeigenbaum/sparql-cheat-sheet * At SemTech 2010, June 21-25, Lee and his colleague Eric Prud'hommeaux, will give a full half-day, hands-on tutorial on SPARQL 1.1.

Presenters:

Lee Feigenbaum
Cambridge Semantics

Lee Feigenbaum has been using Semantic Web technologies to architect and develop enterprise middleware and applications since 2003. He brings this expertise to his role as Cambridge Semantics’s VP of Technology and Standards, where he is responsible for the design and development of the Anzo family of semantic applications and middleware. Lee is the author of Glitter, a pluggable SPARQL engine designed to query multiple data sources. Lee served as Chair of the W3C RDF Data Access Working Group, publishing the SPARQL query language and protocol specifications. Lee co-authored "The Semantic Web in Action," a December 2007 article in Scientific American. Before joining Cambridge Semantics, Lee spent five years as an engineer with IBM’s Advanced Internet Technology Group. There, his experiences spanned knowledge management and annotation systems, instant-messaging software, and Web-based client application runtimes. Lee writes about Semantic Web technologies at his blog, TechnicaLee Speaking.

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Presenters:

Matt Fisher
Progeny Systems

Matt Fisher is a Principal Systems Engineer at Progeny Systems who enjoys discussing the Semantic Web to the point that his wife hopes he gets a new hobby. 

John Hebeler

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Drupal 7 (alpha), the latest major release of the popular open source CMS, includes a lot of features for web publishers interested in implementing Semantic Web Technologies.

In May of 2009, Google announced the support for RDFa as part of its Rich Snippet program. At the time, the work for integrating Semantic Web technologies into the next release of Drupal’s core had already started. In May, 2010 at DrupalCon San Francisco, Dries Buytaert – creator and project lead of Drupal – reaffirmed the community’s strong support for RDF in Drupal 7 by showing what sort of applications this will enable. A few days later, Facebook announced the Open Graph protocol, a new protocol based on RDFa which allows for turning any webpage into a rich object in a social graph. Clearly, the future is in the Semantic Web. This webinar presents some brief history about semantics in Drupal and the various facets of RDF and RDFa which are available today as part of Drupal 7 alpha.

At the SemTech 2010 Conference in June, Stéphane Corlosquet, Lin Clark, Alex Passant and Axel Polleres will present a hands-on Tutorial on "How to build Linked Data sites with Drupal 7 and RDFa."

Relevant links mentioned during the webinar:

• - Drupal project
• - Download latest Drupal 7
• - Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal! paper (PDF)
• - RDF browsers:
  • - Sindice inspector (including a bookmarlet to add to your browser)
  • - URI burner
  • - Tabulator
• - Who uses Drupal:
  • - The White House
  • - New York Observer
  • - more
• - Semantic web and Drupal video presented at DrupalCon San Francisco keynote.
• - Semantic Drupal for all news on Semantic Web in Drupal and how to get started with RDF in Drupal.
• - Follow Stéphane Corlosquet on twitter to keep up to date with the latest developments.

Presenters:

Stephane Corlosquet
MGH / Partners

Stéphane Corlosquet has been the main driving force in incorporating Semantic Web capabilities into the Drupal CMS. His ‘RDF CCK’ and ‘evoc’ contributed modules to Drupal 6 have naturally evolved to be accepted as standard within the core of the upcoming Drupal 7. He co-authored the ISWC 2009 Best Semantic Web In Use Paper titled "Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal!". Stéphane recently finished an M.Sc. in Semantic Web at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland and joined MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND), MGH as a Software Engineer to work on the Science Collaboration Framework, a Drupal-based distribution to build online communities of researchers in biomedicine. For more information, see http://openspring.net/

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Presenters:

David Wood
Zepheira

David Wood is a partner with Zepheira and software engineer/entrepreneur specializing in disruptive technologies. He is a co-founder of the Kowari, Mulgara and PURLZ Open Source Software projects. Dr. Wood has been involved with Semantic Web research and standards efforts since 1999.

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Since 2002, several US federal agencies have been deploying XML standards for the exchange of complex data sets. Led by a large project at the US Department of Justice and homeland security, there are now hundreds of states and vendors supporting an emerging XML standard called the National Information Exchange Model or NIEM. This presentation will look at the NIEM processes and show how they are being used to promote semantically precise data exchanges as well as promoting transparency in government. We will compare ISO-based NIEM processes with RDF and OWL and show how they complement each other.

The slides for this session are available to registered members of Semantic Universe only. Please sign in to the site, and a link to download the slides will appear. If you are not a member, please consider joining today. Membership is free.

Presenters:

Dan McCreary

Dan is an enterprise data architect/strategist living in Minneapolis. He has worked for organizations such as Bell Labs and Steve Job’s NeXT Computer as well as founding his own consulting firm of over 75 people. He has a background in object-oriented programming and declarative XML languages (XSLT, XML Schema design, XForms, XQuery, RDF, and OWL). He has published articles on various technology topics including the Semantic Web, metadata registries, enterprise integration strategies, XForms, and XQuery. He is author of the XForms Tutorial and Cookbook.

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In today’s global, online economy, enterprises must become more agile in order to survive. Business policies and requirements are constantly changing to keep up with new opportunities, government regulations, technology capabilities and competitor offerings. Meanwhile, budgets and timelines are getting tighter. All of these trends make the traditional way of developing applications far too inefficient for today’s business needs. Solutions based on the Semantic Web standards offer flexibility and responsiveness to change.

This Webinar will show how dynamic semantic business applications can be assembled faster than traditional approaches, by demonstrating how to:

• Quickly create a deployable application based on Semantic Web data models.
• Incorporate new data sources without incurring a costly impact on existing data structures.
• Support new business requirements by evolving the business application without disrupting application logic

Presenters:

Dean Allemang
TopQuadrant
Dr. Allemang specializes in innovative applications of knowledge technology and brings to TopQuadrant over 15 years of experience in research, deployment, and development of knowledge-based systems. He developed the curriculum for Top Quadrant’s successful training series for Semantic Web technologies, which he has been presenting to customers world-wide for four years. Dean has completed a master’s degree at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall scholar, a PhD at the Ohio State University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Scholar, and is a two-time winner of the Swiss Prize for Innovation in Technology. Prior to joining TopQuadrant, Dr. Allemang was the Vice-President of Customer Applications at Synquiry Technologies, were he filed two patents on the application of graph matching algorithms to the problems of semantic information interchange.

Irene Polikoff
TopQuadrant

Since co-founding TopQuadrant in 2001, Irene Polikoff has been involved in more than a dozen projects, both with government and commercial organizations. She has written strategy papers, trained customers on the use of the Semantic Web standards, developed ontology models, designed solution architectures, and defined deployment processes and guidance. With the evolution of TopQuadrant from a technology consultant to a technology provider, Irene has been playing an active role in requirements and design of TopQuadrant’s Semantic Solution Platform – TopBraid Suite. Irene has over 20 years of experience in software development, technology deployment, and strategic planning. Immediately before starting TopQuadrant, Irene was a Principal in the Knowledge, Content Management, and Portals Practice in IBM Global Services. Prior to that, she was a Senior Development Manager and a Project Executive for IBM worldwide consultant’s tools and methods. Irene has an MS in operations research from Columbia University.

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