We were at the WWW 2007 conference in Banff, Canada week before last. Virtuoso was a part of Alan Ruttenberg’s semantic web in health care and life sciences presentation. Alan had a database of 350M triples extracted from different biology and publication databases running on Virtuoso. We will also be experimenting on other biomedical datasets, both with real RDF and relational data mapped to RDF on demand.
Linking Open Data was a big thing at WWW 2007. There is quite a bit of momentum gathering around publishing publicly available data as RDF and making these data sets mutually joinable. Chris Bizer of the Free University of Berlin will be demonstrating Dbpedia linked with a number of other data sets such as Geonames and Musicbrainz and others at ESWC 2007 in a couple of weeks, also running on Virtuoso.
The last month or so has been spent mostly on the conference preparation and follow up, not to mention taking part in two EU project proposals. But now we are returning to normal operations and can do some technology for a change. More on this in the next post.