Tuesday, 5/22/2007
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Level: Technical - Introductory

Oracle 10g has introduced the industry's first open and secure enterprise-class semantic data management platform. Application developers can now leverage this semantic data management platform for very fast loading, query and inferencing of RDF and OWL data. This presentation provides a product overview of the current release. It will also preview some upcoming developments.

Xavier Lopez is Director of Oracle's Spatial and RDF technologies group. Xavier leads Oracle's efforts to incorporate spatial and semantic technologies across Oracle's database technologies. He has eighteen years of experience in the area of GIS and spatial databases. He holds advanced engineering and planning degrees from University of Maine, MIT, and the University of California, Davis. Xavier has been active in numerous academic and government research initiatives on geographic information. He is the author of a book on government spatial information policy and has authored over 100 scientific and industry publications in areas related to spatial information technology.