Kasabi - A marketplace for data, built on Linked Data & SPARQL 1.1
Location: London
Date: May 10, 2011
RSVP: meetup.com
Kasabi - A marketplace for data, built on Linked Data
is a new project from Talis, bringing together developers and data providers. It's a marketplace for data, built on Linked Data, and able to be tailored finely to curate and access data. This is an introduction to Kasabi.
Zach Beauvais worked at Talis for more than 3 years as the Talis Platform’s Evangelist, he met many incredibly interesting people working across the web and has written pieces for ZDNet and ReadWriteWeb, and has edited the Semantic Web’s magazine Nodalities for the past two years. He has just joined the Kasabi team as the Community Manager.
Updates from SPARQL & RDF WG
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/
Steve Harris will give us an update about efforts in the W3C SPARQL & RDF WG. Steve Harris is currently editor for the SPARQL Query Language 1.1 and CTO at Garlik. Steve is responsible for Garlik's secure technology platform. He is widely regarded in the Semantic Web community as the architect of Garlik's open source, scalable RDF platform, 4store, and has served on the W3C working groups that defined the SPARQL query language.