---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RDF, Query Languages and XML DevCon Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:26:22 -0500 From: "B.K. DeLong" bkdelong@pobox.com To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi all -
It was great meeting everyone at the W3C Plenary. I wanted to point out two talks relevant to RDF being given at the XML DevCon Spring 2001 conference (http://www.xmldevcon2001.com) in NYC next month - April 8-11 at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel:
Introduction to RDF: Dr. Jonathan Borden will offer a practical introduction to RDF, covering a schema for RDF representation of healthcare information, and techniques to RDF enable general XML information. 4/9/2001, 6:45 - 8:15pm ET. http://www.xmldevcon2001.com/NY/html/session.php?code=N14
Combining RDF and XPath to Automate Web Services: Uche Ogbuji describes a method of using XPath to establish rules for extracting RDF data from general XML documents, and using the experimental RDF Inference Language (RIL) to express rules for automating processing of the data once the RDF model has been populated. 4/11/2001, 9:20 - 10:35am ET. http://www.xmldevcon2001.com/NY/html/session.php?code=W4
I remember quite a few people at the plenary and IG meeting were interested in XQuery and related query language development. This morning, Camelot Communications put out a release highlighting *4* sessions relevant to Query Languages at the same show: http://www.zotgroup.com/press/2001/0312.html
There's a few other talks that touch upon schemas, Web services, SQL and the like that may also be of interest. The full list of sessions is here: http://www.xmldevcon2001.com/NY/html/conference.php
I was surprised there weren't more Semantic Web related talks. There is a CFP out for both the London and San Jose shows this coming October. http://www.xmldevcon2001.com/NY/html/callfall.html
Hopefully we'll start seeing more discussion and talks on RSS/RDF/RQL at future shows.
-- B.K. DeLong Research Lead ZOT Group
work 617.542.5335 ext. 204 cell 617.877.3271 bkdelong@zotgroup.com http://www.zotgroup.com
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