Attending WWW2008
I'm currently in Beijing, enjoying WWW2008.
Sunday, Uldis, John and myself gave a tutorial about "Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web", in which we detailed current state of the art regarding SIOC and related works, like how Enterprise 2.0 or data portability can be enhanced thanks to the Semantic Web, as well as describing various tools that produce or consume Social Semantic Web data. The slides can be browsed online here.
Today, I gave two talks at the LDOW workshop, the first one about the flickrdf exporter, the second one about MOAT, while Uldis talked about SIOC and Linked Data. Slides of both of my presentations are online. It was a great workshop, lots of interesting papers and concrete applications demo. That's really interesting and encouraging to see so much people deploying Semantic Web technologies in various contexts and for various purposes, from biology to enterprise data integration, and also facing new research issues as URI identification and mappings.
Tomorrow starts the main conference, and I guess - and I hope - that it will be as intense and interesting as those first two days. For those interested in MOAT, I'll give a talk in the Dev Track - Semantic Web II session on friday morning. And for those who've been at the LDOW workshop today, the slides will be a bit different, so you can come one more time :)
