The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative and intelligent technologies and applications. In this presentation we describe the underlying principles and key features of the semantic web along with where and how they fit in with server side and client side technologies supported by ColdFusion.

1. The Semantic Web and Coldfusion William Greenly 29 th July 2010

3. New revenue stream

4. That thing 10 years ago was the Semantic Web and somewhere between now and then it got lost

6. RDF/XML, OWL/XML, RDFa, SPARQL

7. Protocols

9. mailto:william.greenly@tribalddb.co.uk

11. < http://www.tribalddb.co.uk/people/Will >

12. <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows>

13. <http://www.tribalddb.co.uk/people/Tim>

15. This can be resolved as triples

17. Essentially a set of axioms that can be used to create vocabularies of terms to describe data

18. Also used for reasoning over data

20. Typically parsed and stored as triples

22. Designed for querying distributed data

23. Sophisticated and feature rich

25. Interface for triplestores (databases) over the web

26. Based on HTTP

27. Use Case 1 HTML+RDFa SPARQL Endpoint Application Application Application Data Data Data Triplestore Nutch/Solr RDFa Parser

28. Use Case 2 HTML+RDFa SPARQL Endpoint Application Application Application Triplestore Nutch/Solr RDFa Parser

30. CFQUERY

31. CF_RDF

32. CF_OWL

33. CFQUERY

34. CF_RDF / CF_OWL

39. ColdFusion ORM supports listeners/event handlers for CRUD operations

40. But SPARQL cannot be treated as a SQL/Hibernate dialect

41. JPA - Empire