Putting the Web Back in Semantic Web Applications

A common first step when using semantic technologies in an enterprise is building a prototype. Unfortunately, an organization new to the area is not likely to have experts on hand in the relevant technologies, RDF, SPARQL, OWL, etc. providing a difficult hurdle from the outset.

Stardog Web aims to abstract away the details of semantic technologies and provide a framework that relies only on familiar Web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript to provide the basis for quickly building web applications which utilize semantic technologies behind the scenes.

In this talk I'll briefly introduce:

The open source library Stardog Web
Talk about some of its design goals
Show a brief demo

Evren Sirin is co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Complexible Inc that develops Stardog, the leading semantic graph database. At Complexible, Evren leads research and development in the areas of semantic technologies, information management, and graph databases. Before joining Complexible, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of Jim Hendler where he published many papers in top-tier conferences and journals.