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Apps & Tools Working Group: next call January 27 at 1pm ET
Changing to a new format to lower the cost of sharing: instead of a single presentation, will be hosting multiple short talks per call of 7 to 10 minutes plus some time for questions
Ontology Working Group: next call February 10 at 1pm ET
Topic TBD
2015 VIVO Implementation Fest: to be hosted March 16-17 (optional activity on 18th) by Oregon Health and Science University in Portland
Please hold March 16 and 17 for the IFest datesOfficial announcement at http://vivoweb.org/blog/2015/01/announcing-2015-vivo-implementation-fest
Likely to have some in-depth focus on ontology given local expertise, and still open to input on other topics/themes or hosting a hackathon
The Boston Area MarkLogic User’s Group is having a Semantics in Theory and Practice event in Waltham, MA from 5:30-7:30 pm on Tuesday, January 27th and would like to get maximum exposure
MarkLogic is a company that has relatively recently started offering triple store technologies to complement XML and NoSQL
MarkLogic triple store technology is being used by the Library of Congress and other large organizations
There will be 2 presenters:
Stephen Buxton, Product Manager for Search and Semantics at Marklogic, leads us in a high-level conversation on semantic triples, what they can do, how they work with other data types and how that might impact your organization.
Beverly Jamison, Sr. Director of IT Architecture at American Psychological Association (and a colleague of Hal Warren), to discuss industry-specific semantics issues, how her organization uses semantics and the process of getting where they are today
Next call in this series will be Thursday, January 29
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