JUC2006 has been over for a few days. This is my wrapup post. First some linkage:
- Leigh’s summary
- Lots of photos from Anja and Libby (I stole a random selection for this post)
- More photos, from Libby too I think
- #swig chatlogs with lots of linkage and commentary: day 1, day 2
There were lots of good talks. The one that got me most excited was Bastian Quilitz’ talk on federated SPARQL queries. It seems to me that SPARQL is the RDF landscape’s most promising area right now. Other SPARQL-related cool stuff: Damian’s SquirrelRDF which queries existing SQL databases with SPARQL; my own D2R Server which does pretty much the same; Ginseng from U of Zürich, a “fridge poetry to SPARQL translator”.
Another noteworthy talk was Leigh’s presentation of Slug, an RDF crawler that is very flexible and extensible and should cover anybody’s crawling needs. Chris Dollin presented Eyeball, a style checker for RDF which captures many common RDF authoring errors. RDFReactor by Max generates Java classes from an RDF schema and is very well thought-out.
There was more cool stuff; I neglected my blogging duties during Reto’s KnoBot talk and Kevin Wilkinson’s update on the state of Jena property tables (very good paper as well – doesn’t seem to be online though.)
I did a short informal talk on D2R Server, which is the latest addition to the D2RQ family of database-to-RDF mapping tools. I got a lot of excellent feedback on our work. Mailing lists are great, but you can’t beat face-to-face community meetings for gathering feedback. The database-to-RDF space is heating up right now, with Kevin’s property tables and Damian’s SquirrelRDF both available soon. Should be fun!
As always, the best part of the conference is to meet new folks, hear stories from the trenches, and put faces to names (and blogs).
Big thank yous go out to Paolo and Manuela for putting me up, and of course to Ian Dickinson and the whole Jena team for making it all happen.
Update: Proceedings are online, and even more photos.