Hands on at the semantic web

Do you want to get a better understanding for what the Semantic Web really is and how it behaves? Would you like to go «under the hood» and find out if this is something for you and your organisation? Wonder what RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Protégé and Ontology means?

After several very popular Semantic Web seminars, we have decided to shift focus from telling you what the Semantic Web is into letting you feel what it can do! This means you're going to be «hands on» at SOFTWARE 2009!

Come, listen and discuss with key-note speaker Sebastian Trüg, KDE, MANDRIVA, NEPOMUK. Sebastian will tell about and show us how deep integrated semantic web technology is in the Open Source Linux based desktop environment KDE, what the 20M€ NEPOMUK project has to do with it and learn from him and other presenters how to use the technology yourself!

During this day you will learn:
● why to use an ontology,
● how to create one for the semantic web,
● how to use an ontology with your data,
● how to query information with SPARQL,
● how to find and query semantically annotated information sources (like DBpedia) in order to enhance your own applications and tools.

The track will be led by Robert Engels, ESIS Norge and David Norheim, Computas, with introductions by Sebastian Trüg, EDGE-IT, Christian Bogstad, OKADO, Kjetil Kjernsmo, Computas and the track leaders.

09:00 Status Semantic Web since last year?

Robert Engels, ESIS Norge and David Norheim, Computas

09:30 Keynote – Trends & status in the Semantic Web
The Social Semantic Desktop & KDE4
Sebastian Trüg, Mandriva Linux/KDE4

10:30 Coffee break

10:45 Touchy Interfaces: or How to use a Mac in the Semantic World. An example for Deichmanske Bibliotek
Christian Bogstad, OKADO

11:00 48+ definitions of Ontology
Robert Engels

11:15 Can I model something myself?
You will get introduced to Protégé and create and edit your own ontology!
David Norheim with assistance of Robert Engels and Sebastian Trüg

12:00 Lunch and networking

13:00 SPARQL – howto on interoperability (Learn SPARQL and see how you can benefit from «open information»)
Sebastian Trüg

13:15 Can I SPARQL something myself?
You will learn how to create and execute SPARQL queries
Sebastian Trüg with assistance from David Norheim and Robert Engels

14:15 Coffee break + demonstrations

14:45 Interoperability and Linked Open Data
Kjetil Kjernsmo, Computas

15:00 Can I do this myself? How to merge my information with existing information sources?
Kjetil Kjemsmo, David Norheim and Robert Engels

15:45 – 16:00 Wrap up & Awards
Session leader to be announced


Things to remember:
– ENGLISH spoken, due to non-norwegian attendance
– BRING YOUR LAPTOP with a CD-rom player, we plan to use a LiveCD so that it is irrelevant which operating system you run!
– We will run 3 to 4 1-hour hands-on sessions!

Sebastian Trüg lives in Germany and works as a computer scientist. He received his MSc from the University in Freiburg in 2006 and is most known for being the developer and maintainer of k3b, the CD/DVD burning application for KDE.

Sebastian has been the key person in bringing semantic technology to the KDE desktop. Within the 180 MNOK EU-project NEPOMUK ("social semantic desktop"), he has implemented and augmented many of the KDE 4.x architecture with functionality supporting the semantic web way of thinking. At Software 2009, he will tell us what he did, why and most important how we can use it in our developments, projects and daily life!

Deltakeravgift:
Medlem i Dataforeningen: Kr. 3.600,- eks. mva.
Ikke-medlem: Kr. 5.000,- eks. mva.
Rabatt ved påmelding før 3. februar 2009!
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