Web Directions

David Peterson — Semantic web for distributed social networks

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• By:jessie
• June 19, 2008
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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 2.40pm.

• Audio record­ing of session
• Presentation slides
• Session descrip­tion
• About David Peterson

Presentation slides

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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One response 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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