Web Directions

David Peterson — Semantic web for distributed social networks

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 2.40pm.

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• About David Peterson

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Session description

Hear how Drupal, Semantic MediaWiki and other bleeding edge tech were enlisted along with pixie dust, FOAF, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Linked Data (basically all the Semantic Web stuff) to build a distributed social network. The focus will be not on evangelism (I don’t really care about that) but how disparate open source platforms can talk and work together. This stuff actually works and makes development more fluid. These technologies make local development easier, but when it is time to broaden your scope, classic search is still king. How can you leverage this? Newcomers such as Yahoo Searchmonkey can play an important role in the creation of a truly distributed information system.

About David Peterson

David Peterson has been a web developer since 1995. He works way up north in the tropics of Townsville, about as far from any tech as possible. Currently he is Head of Research at BoaB interactive and is working hard to kickstart the Semantic Web down under. Not only that, but he is an Advisory Committee representative to the W3C. Wow.

His wonderful family, making lovely photographs and searching for the perfect espresso keeps him happy.

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3 responses to “David Peterson — Semantic web for distributed social networks”:

1. • By: Andrew Lampitt
   • October 27th, 2008
   

   David, your observations are spot on. Curious to know of your thoughts on semantically enabled Atlassian Confluence (enterprise wiki) and how it can tie together other systems, for a lot of purposes but software engineering in particular.
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   • July 6th, 2011

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3. • By: מתנות לגבר
   • February 23rd, 2012
   

   Thank you David for sharing you interesting point of view.

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