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Workshop: W3C SIG Day | Web Directions
Workshop: W3C SIG Day
- In: Blog
- By: maxine
- June 23rd, 2008
This year as part of our workshop series run on the days before the conference, for the second year running, we will be hosting a W3C SIG day organised by the Australian office of the W3C.
If you want to hear all about new and emerging standards, as well as see hands on demos of what you can do with them by people currently working on real world projects, then this is the workshop for you.
Check out the full program for the day here, but one of the major themes I can see is the semantic web, or Web 3.0 as some would have it. Which reminds me, I went to a little event at the Film Festival late last week run by a poor fellow who seemed to think that Web 3.0 was all about “how we make Web 2.0 pay its own way”. Not sure where he got that idea from, and I definitely don’t want to get into any debates with anyone at all about what Web 3.0 might look, feel, or sound like, but, one of its more commonly accepted definitions revolves around the implementation of The Semantic Web. In the words of Tim Berners-Lee:
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.
It’s a grand vision, but each journey starts with the ground beneath your feet. At this W3C SIG day you’ll hear from:
- Amit Parashar on implementing a semantic web application using technologies such as SPARQL, GRDDL, RDF and OWL
- David Ratcliffe on SPARQL - semantic data querying
- Michael Compton on managing sensor networks with semantic technologies
As well as sessions from Mike Smith of the HTML 5 Working Group and Charles McCathienevile of the Web Aplication Working Group.
For anyone interested in the genuine cutting edge of standards based development this will be a fascinating and engaging day with your peers in the Australian web industry.
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