Meetup at the Semantic Technology Conference 2010 in San Francisco

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This year our Alliance Semantic Web meetup event will take place at the Semantic Technology Conference 2010 in San Francisco. Come and meet your peers to discuss all things Semantic Web, Web 3.0 and Linked Data to make the Web of Data a reality. It took more than 10 years to get the Semantic Web initiative where it is today and we have good reason to believe that it's about time to hit the mainstream web. This I believe will not happen without friction since the standards in the Semantic Web initiative are geared towards a more academic audience rather than web practitioners. With the growing adoption in the mainstream community this might therefore require some fine tuning to the standards. So it's interesting times again, I hope to see you in San Francisco this summer.


Participating Meetup groups (4048 members)

Atlanta - Austin - Cambridge - Chicago - London - Los Angeles - New York - Philadelphia - Oslo - Ottawa - Princeton - San Diego - San Francisco - Seattle - Silicon Valley - Thessaloniki - Toronto - Vancouver - Vienna - Washington DC

Proposed Sessions

SundayJune 20Pre-conference DaySemantic Code Camp 2010
MondayJune 21First Conference DayBig Meetup Social
TuesdayJune 22Second Conference DaySemantic Social Networks - Meetup Ontology (or on June 23)
WednesdayJune 23Third Conference DayIncentives & Roadblocks for Participating in the Semantic Web(or on June 22)
ThursdayJune 24Fourth Conference Day
FridayJune 25Fifth Conference Day

Proposed Session Overview

Incentives & Roadblocks for Participating in the Semantic Web - As exposure of the Semantic Web grows, companies are pushing back against participation citing a number of concerns. These concerns include attribution, performance, reliability and reciprocity, among others. What can be done to address these concerns? Such concerns cannot simply be dismissed by equating the Semantic Web with the World Wide Web and assuming participation will be guaranteed. Instead, the SW community must take a hard look at other disciplines of distributed data sharing for patterns and practices that can be applied to the SW.