This month the talk will be given by one of our organizers, Paul Gearon, on the open source Mulgara software.

Description
Mulgara is an open sourced RDF data store that can run in any Java environment. It has a mature codebase, starting in 2001 as a commercial system, before being open sourced in 2004.

Mulgara offers a scalable data store, with a flexible mechanism for integrating RDF from multiple sources. It supports many standards, providing a flexible and consistent means for developers to work with their data. The system supports all the major semantic web standards, REST interfaces, and provides a rule engine for logic programming. Mulgara is widely deployed in both industry and government, and provides storage the storage layer for several other systems which integrate Semantic Web data, including the Public Library of Science and Fedora Commons.

This talk will discuss some of the architecture and interfaces for Mulgara, and demonstrate the ease with which it can be deployed and accessed.

Speaker Bio
Paul has over 15 years experience in the software industry, with over 9 years working with the Semantic Web. His career started in Australia as a computer engineer, and moved through civil engineering, power supply and transmission, electronics design, embedded programming, encryption systems, and database programming and management. His background in engineering and physics led to an interest in systems level coding and scalability, skills which he applied to the Mulgara system where he was an original designer. More recently his interests have moved to logic systems, rule systems, and description logic programming.

Paul currently runs the Mulgara Open Source project, and is employed by Fedora Commons to spend most of his time working on it.

We are also scheduling some time for people to meet and talk.

Food and drinks will be provided, however it would be appreciated if you can chip in $5 to help cover our costs.