BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The charter of government is to be responsive to the people. As such, government information belongs in the hands of the governed. Semantic Web technologies provide an unparalleled capability for making public data genuinely available to the general populace. Common practice in the past has been to publish data in idiosyncratic, disconnected forms. With new policies for information sharing in place, there is a wide appreciation of the need for sharable, connectible government information. This tutorial draws on information sharing projects such as the Federal Enterprise Architecture and the resources at open government web sites like oegov.org to provide attendees with a taste of real semantic web applications and the promise this approach holds for open, shared government. Attendees will learn the basics of the Semantic Web, as well as proven methods for accessing and combining existing information sources (e.g., spreadsheets, XML feeds and databases). nFurthermore, we will use hands-on exercises to illustrate how to create applications using government information published as linked data on sites like oegov.org and dbpedia.org.nThis half-day tutorial will include lectures and exercises on the following topics:nnPREREQUISITES
nThe tutorial assumes familiarity with basics of RDF, RDFS and SPARQL, but does not assume in-depth knowledge. DTSTART:20100625T083000 SUMMARY:Workshop: Building Semantic Web Applications for Government — Using TopBraid Suite DTEND:20100625T115959 LOCATION:Fransciscan D END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR