Wednesday, 5/23/2007
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Level: Technical - Intermediate

How are the semantics in your semantic web application stored? Is the subject-predicate-verb format of the triple-store confusing to implement and limiting? This session will present a new semantic store for the semantic web; the Entity-Instance-Relationship Model™. The Entity-Instance-Relationship Model™ provides a comprehensive semantic store for managing the three key elements of semantics: Entities, Entity-Instances (occurrences of unique entities), and Entity-Instance-Relationships (the semantic correlations among Entities and Entities-Instances). This flexible semantic store elegantly addresses the difficult challenges of defining type and sense of diverse instances of entities and semantically assembling them in large distributed collections.

Thomas Bascom is the President and Founder of LinkSpace, LLC. Mr. Bascom has been developing and promoting applications for the semantic web since 2001 when he founded LinkSpace LLC. His diverse background includes experience on programs of national visibility in telecommunications, civil space, and missile defense in positions at MCI, NASA and Hughes-Raytheon. Mr. Bascom is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and the George Washington University.