AJAXWorld Session - How to Use RDFa to Build Semantic Mash-ups

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Dean Allemang will present a session entitled 'How to Use RDFa to Build Semantic Mash-ups' at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, March 19-21, 2007, in New York City. Semantic Mash-ups ('SMash-ups') are combinations of information from multiple sources using the W3C Semantic Web languages (RDF and OWL) to control merging and filtering of the mashed-up data. We present a system for building Smash-ups from many different kinds of Web sources, including RDF source, databases, and Web pages (via RDFa, the RDF in HTML proposal). The SW standards allow you to define filters on the SMash-up display from simple to complex: e.g., 'all the places I need to be on Saturday,' 'the times of all my appointments, but the descriptions for only the professional ones.'

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