For Web2.0 Expo SF 2010, Jamie examined how User Generated Data will drive the next phase of Web2.0. He reviewed how the “Stone Soup of Data” is driven by Cumulative Advantage, an Architecture for Participation and a Community that can operate at all scales. The talk also touched on how percolation theory can be . . .
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For Web2.0 Expo SF 2010, Jamie examined how User Generated Data will drive the next phase of Web2.0. He reviewed how the “Stone Soup of Data” is driven by Cumulative Advantage, an Architecture for Participation and a Community that can operate at all scales. The talk also touched on how percolation theory can be used to model messages through a social network and why the semantics of Twitter follow Reed’s Law (2^N).

Later at the conference, Jamie helped run the first “Linked Data-a-thon” . . .
Read More: ISWC 2009]]> At the International Semantic Web Conference, Jamie teamed up with Olaf Hartig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin),
Juan Sequeda (University of Texas at Austin) and Patrick Sinclair (BBC) to present a tutorial on “How to Consume Linked Data on the Web.”

Later at the conference, Jamie helped run the first “Linked Data-a-thon” contest to see what people could do with Linked Data.

The slides from the tutorial.

OSCON 2009 Open Source Semantic Tools Tutorial

The Abstract:

The cloud of . . .
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In July 2009 we presented the tutorial “Learn to use Semantic Technologies using Open Source Tools.” Our intent was to introduce the Web2.0 Open Source community to the Open Source tools and techniques that have been developed in the semantic technology community.

The slides from the tutorial.

OSCON 2009 Open Source Semantic Tools Tutorial

The Abstract:

The cloud of data is a beautiful vision, but it is predicated on the idea that you can make sense of other peoples’ data. Through the use of semantic programming techniques, developers can now pack data and metadata together to make their data more portable and extensible. These techniques not only provide benefits for other who may need to access your data, but generally simplify your own development and data modeling efforts.

This tutorial will introduce participants to Semantic Technologies through a simple examples, demonstrations and code snippets to help participants understand how to build functional semantic applications.

The tutorial does not presuppose any experience with Semantic Technologies and is aimed at developers who are comfortable making REST API calls in the language of the choice. The examples presented will primarily use Python, but should generalize to any modern programming language.