ESWC 2007 and Scripting for the Semantic Web
Monday, July 2nd, 2007With encouragement from Steffen Schaefer and Tom Heath I finally got to Europe for the 4th European Semantic Web Conference and the Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop.
Coming from a java background the workshop opened by my eyes to the flexibility of scripting languages, especially in the context of the semantic web. Now have a stronger focus on PHP, JavaScript, Ruby (Ruby on Rails) and Python, especially when developing lightweight semantic web apps. AJAX and REST design paradigms are taken as a given. Ripple also looks like a promising language to explore when working with RDF.
Also enjoyed meeting Danny Ayers. Danny has blazed a lot of the trail that I seem to be following, e.g. Danny’s Project Vocabulary Ontology provides a good start for the project management ontology needed as part of enabling CDMS for the Semantic Web.