RDF in Perl presentation at the German Perl Workshop

[Thomas Kappler]

Hi all,

at the German Perl Workshop last week, I gave a 20-minute presentation
in German about RDF in Perl. I first introduced RDF in the simplest
way possible, as there wasn't much time, then showed off RDF::Trine
and RDF::Query with code examples.

I fully realize that it had been better to announce this talk
beforehand so you guys could have had a look at my outline and slides
to improve them. But like these things go, I only got around to
actually preparing the talk the week before.

I made it clear that I haven't contributed anything to the RDF::
modules and to the perlrdf.org community, and clearly gave credit to
Greg et al. who wrote all that code.

The talk was well received, and I had some interesting conversations
afterward where people wanted to know more about RDF. Their questions
mainly centered around ontologies/vocabularies, the additional time
required to do this properly, and how to build an app on top of a
triple store. I had talked about integrating RDF into existing apps in
my presentation, for instance using Trine's support for RDFa,
as_hashref, JSON and other possibilities.

The slides (in German) are at [1], the scripts I took the code
snippets from at [2], and the workshop page for the talk at [3].

[1] http://github.com/thomas11/perl-rdf-talk
[2] http://github.com/thomas11/perl-rdf-experiments
[3] http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2010/talk/2609

I think I managed to raise some awareness for and understanding of RDF
and perlrdf.org in an audience where almost no one had had any
exposure to these topics, so I'd say it was a success.

Cheers,
Thomas