Highlights from the SemTech 2006

Here we are again, flying and writing blogs. This time the flight is operated by Scandinavian Airlines, and the connections, at least to our corporate network via VPN, is awfully bad. Well, actually I cannot connect to our email servers at all...

Well, three and a half days of SemTech has now past, and I have to say that it was really a nice conference. Well organized, good speakers, and well-prepared presentations. And most of them were very interesting.

Some of the most interesting topics I heard about were (go and google for more information about these):

• Jena programming and inferencing in Jena
• Ontference and the architectural things behind it
• TopBraid Composer - a really good alternative (better?) for Protege
• From the keynote of Hendler/Lassila: go and link your ontologies with others, and make them available
• Ontology integration and merging by integration ontologies
• Semantic Wikis
• Microformats

That's all for now, more info and possible ideas related to my PhD later...