Seattle Semantic Meetup

September 15, 2009 6:30 PM - 27 attended

Dr. Jans Aasman, Franz's President and CEO to meet and present

Microsoft Office, Bravern 2 (map)

Selected By: Jill McRae

At SemTech 2009 in June, discussions with the Franz group brought the opportunity for Dr. Jans Aasman to visit our Meetup here in Seattle and exchange ideas centric to the maturing of offerings in the Semantic Web.
Please welcome Jans to our corner of the Semantic Universe, and come participate in this Meetup as a beginning of the SemTech 2009 presenters who have expressed interests with involvement with our group.

The venue is the Microsoft Office in the brand new Bravern Shopping Area. Details: see http://www.thebravern....
Come to the second floor Bravern 2 lobby for directions to our room. There will be light refreshments. Our thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring this meeting!

Agenda:
6:30-7:00 Networking
7:00-8:00 Talk/presentation by Dr. Aasman
8:00-... Interact and Schmooze time

Please come with lots of great questions for Jans! The Franz website and product descriptions are:
http://www.franz.com/... and their highly scalable triple-store is on
http://www.franz.com/....

Bobbin Teegarden will be coordinating this event and can be reached via email at: [masked]. (If you would like to volunteer a venue, please contact Bobbin). She will be editing this announcement in the next few days as an assistant organizer.

Chris Evans
My first Meetup, but won't be my last.

Posted September 16, 2009 at 8:06 AM
You must be a member to post a comment. Join or login.

27 attended

4.507 (7 ratings)

Event Host

bobbin teegarden
Co-Organizer
Torrie Thomas

I liked his presentation very much, especially since he seemed able to calmly juggle between expert and beginner questions from the mixed audience. Even though I have limited programming experience and mostly relational database background, I didn't find the presentation confusing.
Tim Fliss

It was an interesting talk that covered the semantic web at many different levels. Because the talk started late and even moreso because of the number of questions, he only got half way through. The audience came from all levels of experience and he did his best to reach everyone. There was an introduction to putting RDF triples into the AllegroGraph triple store. He demonstrated inference with simple rules and visualization of the graph. He then gave brief overviews of real world applications such as NASA's Constellation project, British Columbia's river information system Kodak's photo sharing site. He also riffed on some projects he's incubating such as a competition analysis system, semantic news tracking and such. He answered questions throughout the talk on subjects such as the implementation of indexing inside the triple store, whether inferred triples are first class citizens (yes), if triples are rich enough to represent data and what kinds of data triples are good at.
Linda Avraamides

I really enjoyed the presentation, which compared data storage options between RDB, OO db, and RDF triple stores. The use cases were fascinating and it would have been nice to spend more time on them.
Chris Evans

Jans is an interesting speaker. For me, it would have been better for him to have kept to his presentation, instead of responding thoroughly to questions which I think (could certainly be wrong!) were not as interesting to most of the attendees. However, it was an endearing response, and if I can see the slides online I hope to still glean the gist of the rest of his talk. I didn't arrive much before the talk began, and wasn't able to stay long after the talk ended. I think the socialization time would have been very valuable; next time I'll try to schedule better. Pizza was good, too... and I love Mike's Hard Lemonade! Thanks, Microsoft!
Robert Kruse
John Lawler
Jesse Wang
David Gunning
Dan J
Linh Tran
Benjamin Grosof
Co-Organizer
Robert S
Pusheng Zhang
Gur Kimchi

+7 guests
Shyam
A former member
A former member
A former member
A former member