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Web Inventor Berners-Lee and Distinguished Faculty Set for LinkedData Planet Program
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Jupitermedia's Inaugural LinkedData Planet Features Technical Program Presented by Experts in Semantics, Databases and Web Technologies
The
program for LinkedData Planet, which runs in New York City on 17-18 June 2008 has been announced. The theme of the conference is the confluence of enterprise and
Internet computing and the progression from a web of linked documents to a web of linked data. LinkedData Planet offers a content-rich technical program by a faculty
composed of thought leaders and key technology contributors, including two originators of the Semantic Web. The technical education program includes presentations about
linking data and applying semantic technologies for enterprise applications, mashups, social networks, information sharing, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
W3C Director Sir Tim
Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and advocate of linking data, will deliver a keynote address on June 17. The keynote speakers include key contributors in the
field of semantics and linked data, such as OpenLink Software founder and CEO Kingsley Idehen. Other keynote speakers include
Talis CTO Ian Davis and
OntoText founder Atanas
Kiryakov. Idehen will present "Creating, Deploying, and Exploiting Linked Data" and Davis will discuss "The Semantic Web as a Blue Ocean Opportunity".
A faculty of experts will present sessions about querying linked data and integrating data from
disparate sources, including content management systems and tables in SQL databases. Two standards architects at Oracle, Dr. Ashok Malhotra and Jim Melton, will discuss
exposing RDF data from SQL databases. Melton is the long-time editor of the international SQL standard. Amber Swope and Jeffrey Deskins of JustSystems will present a
session about the marriage of content management systems, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and linked data. Andy Seaborne of HP Labs, member of the W3C
RDF Data Access Working Group, will speak about SPARQL and querying RDF data.
Semantic Technologies, Machine Intelligence
Professor James Hendler,
Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and co-originator of the Semantic Web, will discuss enterprise data
integration and the future of data in "The Fellowship of the Web: The Two Towers". Marcus Tresvani of Relevant Digital will speak about SOA and semantic discovery for enterprises and consumers.
Dr. Rachel Yager (Director, Machinitas) will speak about best practices in semantic system
development. Barak Pridor, CEO of Reuters Clear Forest, will discuss semantic metadata services, including Reuters Calais web service.
Dr. William Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University will present a session about applying
machine intelligence for classifying structured and unstructured data. Geoff Brown will discuss applied semantic technologies for automated management of network
infrastructures.
Ontology, Taxonomies and Knowledge
Representation
Chief Scientist Dean Allemang and
co-founder Irene Polikoff of Top Quadrant will speak about applying semantic web technology, such as taxonomies and ontologisms, to enterprise computing solutions.
Taylor Cowan of Sabre and Jay Fichialos of Travel Studio will discuss trip planning using industry standards and an OWL ontology.
Seth Earley will present "Building a Practical Semantic Framework: The role of taxonomies and
controlled vocabularies in data integration". Dr. Jens Aasman, CEO of Franz, will speak about
Web 3.0 and real-world examples of improving services through behavioral and activity recognition. Rebecca Dias (VP, SynapticMash) will explore tools, technology and
privacy issues for social networks and Tom Heath of Talis will explain how to publish linked data on the Web.
Uche Ogbuji will present "Linked Data: The Real Web 2.0" and participate in the Linked Data
Workshop moderated by conference co-chair Bob DuCharme of Innodata Isogen. The workshop instructors include:
- Dr.
Melli Annamalai (Product Manager, Oracle)
- Michael
Bergman (CEO, Zitgist)
- Uche
Ogbuji (Partner, Zepheira)
- Nikita
Ogievetsky (VP, Morgan Stanley)
- Walter
Perry (Managing Director, Fiduciary Automation)
- Dr.
Andy Seaborne (Research Scientist, HP Labs).
Dr. Sören Auer will discuss the creation of large data and knowledge bases such as DBPedia and
OntoWiki. Dr. Giovanni Tummarello, Researcher at Ireland's Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI),
will present "How to efficiently publish and locating linked data: Semantic Web Sitemaps and Sindice API".
Conference
co-chair Ken North will moderate a power panel discussion about "Semantic Technology in the Real World: Challenges and Opportunities". Panel members include:
- Geoff
Brown (CEO m2mi)
- Kingsley
Idehen (CEO OpenLink)
- Eghosa
Omoigui (Director, Intel Capital)
- Robert
Shimp (VP, Oracle)
- Alex
Spinelli (CTO Reuters News).
LinkedData Planet runs June 17-18, 2008 at
the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The keynote presentations are open to people who register for the technical program or the Special Events pass. Early registration
discounts apply until May 20.
Details of the LinkedData Planet agenda
Register for the education program or the free Special Events pass
Ken North is the editor of WebServicesSummit.com, founder of Ken North Computing,
LLC, Chair of DataServices World and Co-chair of LinkedData Planet.
