ApacheCon NA 2011

[Paolo Castagna <ca...@googlemail.com>]

Hi,
ApacheCon NA 2011 call for participation ends
Friday, 29 April 2011 at midnight Pacific Time.

Is someone planning to go and/or submit a proposal?

Let me know,
Paolo

Re: ApacheCon NA 2011

[Paolo Castagna <ca...@googlemail.com>]

Paolo Castagna wrote:
> Hi Ross.
> 
> Ross Gardler wrote:
>> On 26/04/2011 12:27, Paolo Castagna wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> ApacheCon NA 2011 call for participation ends
>>> Friday, 29 April 2011 at midnight Pacific Time.
>>>
>>> Is someone planning to go and/or submit a proposal?
>>
>> I will be there, I was not planning on doing anything for Jena 
>> specifically. Of course, I will be talking to people about the project 
>> as often as appropriate.
> 
> I will be there (at 99.99%).
> 
> I am going to submit a 45 minutes talk for Jena
> I wrote a quick draft/abstract today, I'll refine/review it tomorrow.

This is the draft (any feedback is welcome).


Proposal Title:

Apache Jena: parsing, storing, querying and processing RDF data (?)
Fiddling with RDF data using Apache Jena (?)
Playing with RDF data using Apache Jena (?)



Description:

Apache Jena, currently in incubation, is a Java framework for building
semantic web applications. It provides developers with a library to
handle RDF, RDFS, RDFa, OWL and SPARQL in line with the relevant W3C
recommendations.

Jena has been developed by researchers at HP Labs, Bristol (UK)
starting back in 2000. It has been an open source project since its
beginning and it is extensively used within the semantic web
community.

This talk introduces the fundamentals of RDF data model and SPARQL
query language as well as the basic usage patterns of Jena: how to
parse and write data in RDF format, how to store it using TDB,
querying with SPARQL using ARQ and how to integrate free text searches
with SPARQL using Apache Lucene or Solr.

At Talis we use Apache Jena, in particular TDB, ARQ, LARQ and Apache
Hadoop in our ingestion pipeline, as well as many other open source
projects, to process RDF data, store it, implement our services and
APIs.


Apache Projects or Key Technologies:

Apache Jena (in particular: TDB, ARQ, LARQ and Fuseki), Apache Lucene,
Apache Solr, Apache Hadoop


Session Type:

  [ ] ½ day Training
  [ ] Full-day Training
  [ ] 2-day Training
  [x] 45-minute Session
  [ ] 90-minute Session
  [ ] Panel* (complete “Additional Information” as detailed below)
  [x] MeetUp (takes place outside general conference program/hours)


Topic Classification:

  [x] Technical
  [ ] Community
  [ ] Business
  [ ] General Audience

Suggested Audience:

  [x] Developer/Programmer
  [ ] Enterprise User
  [ ] Entrepreneur/Investor
  [ ] Systems administrator
  [ ] IT Manager/CxO


Suggested Focus Area:

  [x] Enterprise Solutions
  [ ] Cloud Computing
  [x] Emerging Technologies + Innovation
  [ ] Community Leadership
  [x] Data Handling + Analytics
  [ ] Pervasive Computing
  [ ] Servers, Infrastructure + Tools


Audience Level:

  [ ] Beginner
  [x] Intermediate
  [ ] Expert

Thanks,
Paolo

> 
>> I really hope we have the SGA from HP on file before then. 
> 
> Me too! :-)
> 
>> It will be embarrassing to have generated interest in this project 
>> entering the incubator at ApacheCon last year and still not have the 
>> paperwork in place this year!
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paolo
> 
> PS:
> Have you already booked the flight?
> BA from Heathrow (direct) seems one of the best alternatives.
> 
>>
>> Ross
> 

Re: ApacheCon NA 2011

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

On 26/04/2011 12:27, Paolo Castagna wrote:
> Hi,
> ApacheCon NA 2011 call for participation ends
> Friday, 29 April 2011 at midnight Pacific Time.
>
> Is someone planning to go and/or submit a proposal?

I will be there, I was not planning on doing anything for Jena 
specifically. Of course, I will be talking to people about the project 
as often as appropriate.

I really hope we have the SGA from HP on file before then. It will be 
embarrassing to have generated interest in this project entering the 
incubator at ApacheCon last year and still not have the paperwork in 
place this year!

Ross