The Semantic Museum
Image via WikipediaI just wanted to write a quick post saying thanks to everyone who came and saw our presentation “The Semantic Web in Practice” last week at the Museum Computer Network conference. It seemed I couldn’t turn around all week without someone commenting positively on our presentation; your compliments were warmly received by both Don and me. Thanks.
The upshot of all this is that we have now officially formed a special interest group around the idea of creating truly “semantic” museums. More on this as it develops, but for the time being, you can join the discussion in the Semantic Museum Google group.
In addition, the slides from Thursday’s presentation can be downloaded here. I’m not sure how useful the slides are without the accompanying narration, but hopefully the notes added to each slide will help clarify things somewhat. And, just so you don’t have to go to the slides for the list of resources mentioned in the presentation, here they are:
- Dean Allemang & Jim Hendler, “Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist“
- w3c’s RDF Primer
- About SPARQL
- Halo extension for Semantic MediaWiki
- D2RQ (tool for rendering SQL dbs as RDF)
There are a few more resources listed in the slides, but I thought these would be the most helpful.
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