The Web Semantic

I enjoyed this (my third) conference experience most of all.  Over the course of three years I’ve come to know more folks in the community and that makes a big difference.  Another big win this year was bringing alo ng a colleague to help deliver the talk.  One small but significant treat is visiting a talk and getting more out of than you expected.  Paul Gearon and James Leigh gave a talk called “merging RDF stores” which was really a summary of layout methodologies for triple stores.  They covered the common techniques and pointed to the trade offs and advantages of each, depeding on the characteristics of your dataset.  Paul gave me an interesting explanation of how he solves the minimum spanning tree problem, which is a very useful query to make which cannot be handled with basic SPARQL. » Read the rest of this entry «