Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C) gave a series of 3 x 1/2 hour talks about
Semantic Web in the Science Park in Amsterdam last year. The last two of
these were captured on ISLA-TV[1].
Federated Queries over Web-sized Data Sources
* query mapping to relational algebra:
o SPASQL - RDF query over relational data
o federation enhancements
o performance characteristics
http://zookma.science.uva.nl/islatv/play.php?file=20080617_other_eric_2
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Semantic Web Services
Automagic choreography and invocation of web services based on the
semantics of their input and output messages.
o SPDL - terse syntax for message-based data mapping
o constructing rules from maps
o rule-derived service choreography
o integration with other inference systems
http://zookma.science.uva.nl/islatv/play.php?file=20080617_other_eric_3
-Scott
[1] http://zookma.science.uva.nl/islatv/
