SWAD Europe Workshop on Semantic Web Storage and Retrieval

Dave Beckett, ILRT, University of Bristol

(Powerpoint version)

Welcome

• Logistics
• Introduction
• Agenda review
• Position paper issues

Meeting Logistics

• This is a public meeting
• IRC notetaking volunteers
• Presentations

Notes 1

• Thanks for attending
• Range of developers
• Major open source semweb systems represented
• Happily the room is too small to get all of them together in 2003!

Notes 2

• Database schema experts
  • JOIN - left, inner, outer
  • Specialised databases versus optimised general DBs`
• Non-relational stores
• APIs and querying

Outcomes

• Evidence of technology maturity
• "shrink-wrapped" systems
• Deployed applications

Outcomes: W3C Semweb Activity

• Help RDF and OWL specs to PR
• Implementation reports
• Feedback on semweb "phase 2":
  • RDF Query / Rules WG/IG
  • Best Practices WG/IG