Information about first f2f and surrounding events

Presentations

Juan on Direct Mapping Relational Databases to the Semantic Web
Eric on Publishing Queries to Data Sources
Chris on Berlin SPARQL Benchmark (1.8MB PPT download) or alternatively via Google Docs
Sören on Triplify

Dates for first f2f

30-31 Oct 2008: Karlsruhe, Germany (during/after ISWC)

The face2face meeting will be held at

Hotel Zum Kaiser Barbarossa
Luisenstraße 36-38
D-76137 Karlsruhe

Preliminary schedule:
Thursday, October 30th 2008:
09.00 - 12.30 morning session
12.30 - 13.30 lunch at ISWC08 conference venue
13.30 - 17.00 afternoon session

Friday, October 31st 2008:
09.00 - 12.30 morning session
12.30 - 13.30 lunch break at restaurant nearby
13.30 - 17.00 afternoon session

Participants

Ahmed Ezzat (remote)
Soeren Auer (local)
Chris Bizer (local)
Axel Polleres (local)
Michael Hausenblas (local)

Connect

server is irc.w3.org:6665
join #rdb2rdf channel
in case you have no IRC client go to mibbit, click on server, add the address above, choose your nick and the channel ... enjoy!

Surrounding events

18-22 May 2008: 2008 Semantic Technology Conference San Jose, CA
01-05 Jun 2008: European Semantic Web Conference 2008 Tenerife, Spain
20-25 Oct 2008: W3C Technical Plenary Meeting Mandelieu, France
26-30 Oct 2008: International Semantic Web Conference 2008 Karlsruhe, Germany