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02.06.10

The Toronto Semantic Web Meetup Group Announcing a new Meetup for the Toronto Semantic Web Group! What: Roundtable discussion on business opportunities and implications from semantic technologies with David Siegel, author of the new book [url=http://www.amazon.com/Pull-Power-Semantic-Tran Toronto, ON M5T 2C7 – Canada Tuesday, March 2 at 6:30 PM Attending: 2 Fee: Price: CAD 10.00 per person

11.18.09

The Chicago Semantic Web & Linked Data Meetup Group Sorry for the late notice. This is a joint meetup with the Ottawa Semantic Meetup group. Description: Dr. Michel Dumontier, Professor in the Department of Biology and School of Computer Science at Carleton University, will be speaking. Professor Dumontier is one of the leading researchers in Canada leveraging Semantic Web technologies.

10.28.09

The Ottawa Semantic Web Meetup Group Full presentation abstract and bio will be posted in the next couple weeks. I’m excited to announce Dr. Michel Dumontier, Professor in the Department of Biology and School of Computer Science at Carleton University, will be speaking to our Meetu Ottawa, ON K1N 5W1 – Canada Tuesday, November 24 at 5:30 PM Attending: 3

10.25.09

The Toronto Semantic Web Meetup GroupThe Open Ontology Repository Currently the notion of the Semantic Web as distributed islands of semantics is not a sufficient de facto repository. * If you put it out the Toronto, ON M3H 6A7 – Canada Tuesday, November 10 at 6:00 PM Attending: 3 Fee: Price: CAD 5.00 per person

08.23.09

The Ottawa Semantic Web Meetup Group Elizabeth Hostetter will give an overview of the Department of Finance Controlled Subject Vocabulary and its representation in the simple knowledge organization system (SKOS). Elizabeth is the Manager of Metadata Services at the Finance Canada Library. Ottawa, ON K1N 5W1 – Canada Thursday, September 10 at 5:30 PM

08.05.09

The Toronto Semantic Web Meetup Group Abstract As wonderful as they are, new search and computation engines can only do so much to abate the problem of information overload. To achieve more signal and less noise with respect to information, more needs to be done on the pull side of th Toronto, ON M3H 6A7 – Canada Monday, August 17 at 5:30 PM Attending: 4

08.05.09

The Toronto Semantic Web Meetup Group Abstract

The Semantic Web allows data from multiple sources and ontologies to be integrated into a single information space using Linked Data. This talk will cover the importance of a single global information space and what standards are available to realize it within your own organization. This talk will introduce the fundamental components of the Semantic Web, including RDF and OWL.

07.26.09

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays In celebration of Information Overload Awareness Day (no, I’m not making that up, c Toronto, ON M5H 3M7 – Canada Wednesday, August 12 at 6:30 PM Attending: 1