[Editor's Note: With the San Francisco-based Semantic Technology Conference just two weeks away, we are going to feature a few of the the new and important products to be discussed at the conference. We will focus on a few of the products and tools that will be featured at the event. The full conference program is available here.]

At SemTech, representatives from Oracle will demonstrate the semantic aspects of Oracle database in two sessions:

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Semantic Tech & Business Conference Returns to San Francisco

Semantic Tech & Business Conference returns to San Francisco in June! Join us from June 3-7 for complete coverage of Big Data, Linked Data, Extreme Information Management, and Semantic Web. From breakthrough approaches to solving business problems to the big data implications of fast–evolving technologies, SemTechBiz provides you with an unparalleled interactive experience and delivers tangible business value. We're offering a special early rate when you register by February 17. Sign up now!

I have often heard people lament the lack of federated systems in the Semantic Web. Certainly, the use of URIs allows data from many different sources to link together seamlessly, and the judicious use of assertions like owl:sameAs can help fill in the gaps, but if a developer wants to do something interesting with data from more than one SPARQL endpoint, they must draw it all in from various locations before merging and linking it all locally. Where is the "webiness" in this data? Wasn’t SPARQL supposed to do all of the processing work for us? Why do we need to do this work manually?

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This interview with Eric Miller, President of Zepheira was conducted by Golda Velez. http://zepheira.com

SR: Eric, let me ask your advice. The Semantic Web is interesting, exciting, promising. So say I’m a developer, how do I get involved with it? Or suppose I have a tech company, how do I get work in this field?

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