A new video by Katie Ray has been making the rounds recently which gives a nice introduction to the Semantic Web and what it all means. An interview with John was featured in the film, along with interviews with Semantic Web personalities such as Tim Berners-Lee, Lee Feigenbaum, and others. Check it out!
Semantics offer quite a bit to the evolving stack of SOA services. Our talked outlined four increasingly powerful semantic additions to aiding SOA goals. Here is the presentation and here is the code [zip|7z|tar.gz] for the Apache Synapse SPARQL mediator if you want to further explore on your own. Please send any suggestions and ideas to further semantics in SOA.
We’ve released an update to the FriendTracker application that accompanies the book. The updated code can be found on the downloads section of the web site, or the following links [zip|7z|tar.gz]. This is the code that we (John Hebeler and Ryan Blace) demonstrated at the DC Semantic Web meetup in August (sorry to those who were waiting for me to post the code… my daughter was born the day after the meetup!)
Updates:
- Sorted names in the names list
- Improved status reporting
- Lots of bug fixes
- Ported to Pellet 2.0 for large performance improvement
- Improved error reporting
Presentation to the NYC Meetup group at Sun Building in NYC. 100 folks signed up so far. Here is the presentation.
