Semantic Web Workshop

The Web is changing faster than you can imagine and it is going to continue to do so. Webs of Documents are giving way to machine-processable Webs of Information. We no longer care about data containers, we only care about data and how it connects to what we already know.

Perhaps the concepts of the Semantic Web initiative are new to you. Or perhaps you have been hearing for years how great technologies like RDF, SPARQL, SKOS and OWL are and have yet to see anything real come out of it.

Whether you are jazzed or jaded, this workshop will provide you with the understanding of a technological tidal wave that is heading in your direction.

In this workshop, we will:

  • Explain the Web and Web architecture at a deeper level
  • Apply Web and Semantic Web technologies in the Enterprise and make them work together
  • Integrate structured and unstructured information
  • Create good, long-lived logical names (URIs) for information and services
  • Use the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to integrate documents, services and databases
  • Use popular RDF vocabularies such as Dublin Core, FOAF, DOAP
  • Query RDF and non-RDF datastores with the SPARQL query language
  • Use the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to represent taxonomies in RDF
  • Model and Do Inference with the Web Ontology Language (OWL)

Brian Sletten

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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