1. The document discusses the Semantic Web and how publishing structured data using technologies like RDF and SPARQL allows machines to understand information and make connections between different data sources. 2. It describes the Archipel research project which uses Semantic Web technologies like RDF and SPARQL Views to interconnect distributed cultural heritage data and provide new ways to access and combine the data. 3. Participating in the Semantic Web can open up new business opportunities by enabling novel ways of combining and sharing data between organizations.

3. Drupal Ninja

4. http://www.krimson.be

5. @netsensei

7. The Archipel Project

8. Demonstration

9. Why you should participate too

10. The Semantic Web

12. Bringing meaning - “semantics” - to information

15. The “old” web

17. HTML links documents not data

22. Compare prices on different webshops

23. Moviereviews on imdb.com vs. Your local theatre

25. How do we “get on” the semantic web?

28. Basically anything

30. XML : eXtensible Markup Language

31. SPARQL : SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language

35. Those properties tell something about the resource

40. FOAF URI references the FOAF Spec

41. Foaf: is the namespace prefix for foaf CURIE's

43. Statements about resources

44. <subject> <predicate> <object> <sensei:me> foaf:name “Matthias Vandermaesen” <sensei:me> foaf:name “ [email_address] ” <sensei:me> foaf:birthday “11.08.1981”

49. Examples: blogposts, comments, users, newsarticles, moviereviews, calendarevents, books, hardwareparts, plants, zoo-animals,...

51. Mapping of entities vs. RDF namespaces

52. Automagically embed RFDa in your content

53. http://semantic-drupal.com/

55. URI's interlink data

58. Riding the Semantic Web

60. SQL like language

61. Allows you to travel through RDF graphs and retrieve/filter information

62. W3C Draft recommendation

67. Wikipedia in a triple store

70. Example query (don't be scared!) PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> ...... SELECT DISTINCT ?name, ?homepage WHERE { ?game rdf:type <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Game> . ?game foaf:name ?name . ?game foaf:homepage ?homepage }

71. Research project: Archipel

75. Using SemWeb technology

76. Drupal http://www.archipel-project.be

77. Archipel

79. Leverages the Views module

84. Stored in the Shared repository (Linked Open Data)

85. Retrieved and rendered with SPARQL Views

86. Toneelstof Demonstration

88. “Like” button

90. Google Rich Snippets

92. Data makes the SemWeb interesting

94. Without business models, the SemWeb will not take off

96. Spawn new business models

97. New ways to foster coöperation between partners

99. http://www.openbelgium.be

100. ...

102. http://semantic-drupal.com/

103. http://lin-clark.com/

104. http://openspring.net/

105. http://www.krimson.be (Riding the SemWeb) Flickr CC: vegaseddie // puliarfanita // mrlins