Special Events

Semantic Web Glasses Framework brings information silos together and enables leveraging wider spectrum of information representations. For example, it can on-the-fly normalize various RSS standards and dialects or translate between TopicMaps, RDF and XML Schemas. We will demonstrate how information expressed in RDF or TopicMaps can be seen as an importable XML Schema, and how RSS Semantic Glasses can help feed readers and aggregators consume various metadata about web resources. Machinery enabling on-the-fly translation and normalization from various XML representations requires just a few lines of Java/C# code. We will present the code and a sample XSLT library.

SPEAKER: Nikita Ogievetsky, Vice President, Morgan Stanley

SPECIAL EVENTS | 7:30pm - 8:20pm

NY XML SIG - presenter 2

Semantic (not syntactic) tools for versioning and for data integration

Data versioning problems (see e.g. recent xml-dev thread http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200712/threads.html#00044 ) have outgrown syntactic (essentially tree-walking diff) solutions. Likewise, there are more and more sophisticated data integration problems where there is no workable syntactic mapping between the domains to be integrated, nor between each of them and some syntactically-described superset--the traditional approach to solving these problems. What seems to be required is a common process to elaborate semantics from the syntactic data of each domain, so that comparisons might then be done on the resulting semantic outcomes, rather than on the underlying raw syntax. Genetic mapping presented a similar problem--variant syntactic sequences yielding similar or congruent semantic outcomes--and the mapping techniques now routinely employed in genetics seem to have direct application to the data management problems of mapping between versions and mapping diverse data domains through the similarities of their semantic outcomes, rather than through their discouragingly disjoint syntax and their non-congruent granularities.

SPEAKER: Walter Perry, Managing Director, Fiduciary Automation

SPECIAL EVENTS | 6:30pm - 8:00pm

NY Semantic Web Meetup

Panel discussion: "The Semantic Web is open for business. Are You Ready?"

The panel will discuss the basic question of what it will take to get the Semantic Web over the top and into the mainstream. Do things need to be added or re-conceptualized in order to get mainstream developers making RDF available from their apps and such?

What is the Semantic Web? A growing number of online services already support Semantic Web technologies to improve interoperability and publish data on the web. The Semantic Web is an effort lead by the W3C to introduce the ability to encode meaning of web content in the form of metadata. In the current web content is created with the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) to describe the layout and linking of content. In the Semantic Web content is typed based on meaning full annotations expressed as fully qualified URIs. This will allow structured searches across distributed web resources in the web of data: The Data Web. The evolution of the current Web of "linked documents" to a Web of "linked data" is steadily gaining mindshare among developers, architects, systems integrators, users, and more than 200 software companies developing semantic web- oriented solutions. The LinkedData Planet conference provides industry professionals with insights into the technologies that will enable them to:

· connect data contained in silos within organizations in a meaningful way

· extract and correlate data from web sites and databases for purposes such as analyzing trends and decision support, customer and vendor relationship management, and social networking

PANELISTS:

Panel Leader: Marco Neumann, New York Semantic Web Meetup

Moderators:

Hank Williams, Founder and CEO, Kloudshare & Eric Hoffer, Second Integral

Panelists:

Sergey Chernyshev, CTO, Semantic Communities LLC

Dan Connolly, Research Scientist, W3 (tentative)

Christine Connors, Global Director, Semantic Technology Solutions, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

Taylor Cowan, Emerging Solutions Principal, Sabre Holdings, Travelocity

Richard Cyganiak, Reseacher, DERI and Project Leader D2RQ

Nic Fulton PhD, Chief Scientist, Reuters Media

Marc Hadfield, President and CTO, Alitora