ICSC 2008
Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic ComputingSanta Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008
Utilizing Federated Knowledge in Semantic Web Applications
Instructor: Jans Aasman
Your future knowledge store will be a collection that lives in-memory, on your local hard disk, on your intranet and/or distributed on the global web. It will be a collection of interrelated triple-stores federated into an ever-changing whole. In this tutorial we will discuss how to develop a flexible architecture for creating 'federated knowledge stores' on the fly that allow for transparent RDFS++ reasoning and SPARQL queries. We will demonstrate this new architecture with billions of triples from distributed sources including the Census database, the dbPedia, Wordnet, Geonames and the Enron e-mail corpus in an RDF federation.
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Short Bios:
Jans Aasman started his career as an experimental and cognitive psychologist, earning his Ph.D in cognitive science with a detailed model of car driver behavior using Lisp and Soar. He has spent most of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in intelligent user interfaces and applied artificial intelligence projects. From 1995 to 2004 he was also a part-time professor in the Industrial Design department of the Technical University of Delft. Jans is currently the CEO of Franz Inc., the leading supplier of commercial, persistent and scalable RDF database products that provide the storage layer for powerful reasoning and ontology modeling capabilities for Semantic Web applications.
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Instructor: Jans Aasman
Your future knowledge store will be a collection that lives in-memory, on your local hard disk, on your intranet and/or distributed on the global web. It will be a collection of interrelated triple-stores federated into an ever-changing whole. In this tutorial we will discuss how to develop a flexible architecture for creating 'federated knowledge stores' on the fly that allow for transparent RDFS++ reasoning and SPARQL queries. We will demonstrate this new architecture with billions of triples from distributed sources including the Census database, the dbPedia, Wordnet, Geonames and the Enron e-mail corpus in an RDF federation.
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Short Bios:
Jans Aasman started his career as an experimental and cognitive psychologist, earning his Ph.D in cognitive science with a detailed model of car driver behavior using Lisp and Soar. He has spent most of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in intelligent user interfaces and applied artificial intelligence projects. From 1995 to 2004 he was also a part-time professor in the Industrial Design department of the Technical University of Delft. Jans is currently the CEO of Franz Inc., the leading supplier of commercial, persistent and scalable RDF database products that provide the storage layer for powerful reasoning and ontology modeling capabilities for Semantic Web applications.
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