Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup

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David B. and 2 others

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- Jim Hendler will give a lightning talk on SemWeb research at Rensselaer (RPI), then take questions. Earlier in the day he's giving a longer presentation (https://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/113280152/).
Jim Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, and the Head of the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer.
- Sandro Hawke will describe the new features in RDF 1.1, which is being finalized in the next few months. New features include JSON-LD, Turtle (finally being a standard), Trig/Named Graphs, and some improvements in how Literals are defined.
Slides: http://www.w3.org/2013/Talks/0409-rdf11/
Sandro Hawke is a software developer specializing in decentralized systems based on open Web technologies. He is a member of the W3C staff at MIT, where he develops tools and research prototypes and serves as staff contact for many Semantic Web Working Groups, including: RDF, SPARQL, OWL, RIF, and Government Linked Data (GLD)
- Go across the hall to the R & D Pub.

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