Tuesday, 5/22/2007
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Level: Technical - Advanced

As a fundamental part of the Semantic Web stack, there are two ways to view RDF: as a model for Web metadata, and as a number of different syntaxes for expressing Web metadata, foremost of which is RDF/XML. This talk describes how Atom, an emerging standard for content metadata syndication, can be used as an alternative syntax for expressing Web metadata that preserves the RDF model yet brings with it significant advantages over RDF/XML in its support for metadata management workflow and compatibility with the growing Web feed ecosystem. The talk will describe how to express RDF in Atom, what this implies in terms of RDF application design and implementation (using a live worked example,) potential impact on the Atom and RSS developer communities, and related work in the area of microformats and RDF-in-XHTML.

Bradley P. Allen is founder and CTO of Siderean Software, Inc., a leading provider of digital navigation solutions. Mr. Allen began his career as a member of the research staff at Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute. As a senior member of the technical team at Inference Corporation he created CBR Express, one of the first case-based reasoning solutions for customer support. He was founder and CTO at Limbex Corporation, where he created WebCompass, an Internet search assistant that won Best Of Show at COMDEX Fall '95. Mr. Allen was also founder of TriVida Corporation, a Web site personalization application services provider, serving as CTO until TriVida's acquisition by Be Free, Inc. in 2000. Mr. Allen earned a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982.