Mashathon in Washington DC on August 24-25, 2010

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Mashathon in Washington DC on August 24-25, 2010 (The first Mashathon)

Data-gov Dataset Catalog and RPI Data-gov Semantic Mashup Demos on RPI's data-gov wiki
Tutorials, Examples, and Google Vis API docs
Mashathon Drupal site: http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/mashaton2010/
SPARQL endpoint: http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/sparql (and the datasets it currently contains)
SPARQL endpoint: http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/sparql (this is our next-generation design)
Source code for Demos

Introduction

As the Semantic Web (sometimes called Web 3.0) emerges, the US government is pleased to be in the vanguard of this new technology space. To this end, Data.gov is hosting a Mash-A-Thon to help familiarize Data.gov developers with using this technology to create a new generation of "linked data" mashups.

We are looking for Agency data stewards and their developers to come and learn from us and each other. During the event participants will be divided in small teams, guided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) developers, to develop useful Mashups to share at the end of the Mash-A-Thon Attendees will then get to vote on which demos should be proposed for hosting on Data.gov!

The guest lecturer is Dr. James Hendler. One of the inventors of the “Semantic Web,” James Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the U.S. Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society and the IEEE professional association. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002.

http://datagovmashathon.eventbrite.com/

Projects

Groups

The following groups produced these mashup demonstrations in about a workday's worth of work.

RPI Helpers

Agenda

Target Participants:

POC’s and developers – bring your laptops with local design/runtime environments (eg. LAMP/JEE/RoR whatever). Announce through the Data.gov listserv – ‘You and your (Gov and Contractor) developer guests are invited’ ‘you’ll be participating in small teams and won’t necessarily have to program, but bring your programmer friends’ ‘what you need to know’ to participate as a developer (basic web arch – eg. php/javascript/xml/xslt - sparql/rdf) You’ll have RPI folks to help you along -

Agenda Day 1 Tue 8/24:

Intro - George Thomas
Semantic Web in Government Data - Jim Hendler
‘How We Did It’ - Dominic DiFranzo (slides: File:Mashathon.ppt)
Lunch Break

Work Sessions – Dominic DiFranzo
Breakout groups
Report out

Happy Hour(s!)

Agenda Day 2 Wed 8/25:

Recap
Q&A Panel
Continue breakouts

Break

Continue breakouts
Report out (Showcase Mashups)
Debrief

Objective:

End up with something that data.gov/semantic can host and show off!

Notes

Questions and Answers

How do we convert tabular data (CSV) to RDF?

We have been developing csv2rdf4lod (Mike Coffey recorded a 75 minute screencast during an in-the-trenches walk through with Tim Lebo. The unedited version is available here -- apologies for a few intervals of down time!)

What kinds of RDF editors are there?