Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium’s Semantic Web Initiative. Eric’s responsibilities include architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and the co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Eric is a Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
The goal of the Semantic Web initiative is to create a universal medium for the exchange of data. Facilities to put machine-understandable data on the Web are quickly becoming a high priority for many organizations, individuals and communities. The Web can reach its full potential only if it becomes a place where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. For the Web to scale, tomorrow’s programs must be able to share and process data even when these programs are designed independently. This tutorial will provide an overview of the Semantic Web as well as a discussion of the supporting standards, novel applications and increasingly available tools and technologies. Attendees will learn to prototype business relationships via URIs in RDF and to think in distributed resource relationships.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in understanding or applying the Semantic Web principles today.
Jamey Hicks' presentation slides on IPv6 are now available here.
Seminar Slides
- Data Integration
- Metadata
- Distributed Information
- The World Wide Web
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Monday, 11/15/2004
Regular Price: $90.00
MIT is at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, just on the north side of Memorial Drive(on the north shore of the Charles River), in Cambridge, MA.
Map showing the MIT campus. The red building is Bldg. 34; the Kendall T-Station is on Main Street off the right side of the map.
Building 34 is located on Vassar Street about half way between Main Street and Massachusetts Ave. It is a small square building turned 45 degrees to the street so it may look like a diamond, especially with a glass atrium entrance. Building 34 is set back a few yards from the street and the line of other buildings. It is between buildings 36 and 38.
Parking: Vassar Street on the other side of Mass Ave has a parking lot, a garage, and plenty of spaces on the street. MIT West Annex Lot and West Garage
Title: A Semantic Web Primer
Author(s): Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen
Publisher: MIT Press
List price: $40.00
PDS price: $30.00
Title: Practical RDF
Author(s): Shelley Powers
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
List price: $39.95
PDS price: $30.00