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The Spring 2009 Webinar Series (see below) demonstrated how Semantic Web standards can be used to quickly deliver powerful and flexible business applications.

If you missed any or all of these first webinars, you can still experience or revisit them in full at your convenience!  Recordings of Webinars I,  II and III are available here:
Recording of Webinar I
Recording of Webinar II
Recording of Webinar III

Spring 2009 Webinar Series

Building Dynamic Business Applications with SPARQL and other Semantic Web Capabilities

The series featured the following three webinars:

Webinar I:  Recording of Webinar I is available here

Using SPARQL for Dynamic Business Applications,
March 11, 2009, 2pm ET 

The semantic web query language, SPARQL is a powerful tool for exploring, finding, processing and managing data within semantic models and applications. Learn from the industry experts as they show how SPARQL can be used to deliver these capabilities to the business users. Experience not only the basics of SPARQL but also the key advanced features necessary for building applications, including:

• SPARQL functions that extend its scope to support common operations.
• A visual query editor that allows business users to construct SPARQL queries without mastering its intricate syntax.
• SPARQLMotion – a visual scripting language for creating data processing chains that execute data imports/exports, processing of user input, queries, inferences, JSPs, and so on.

Webinar II:  Recording of Webinar II is available here

SPARQL for Business Rules and Constraint Checking: Introducing SPIN,
April 1, 2009, 2pm ET.

Semantic Web modeling languages like OWL offer a standard way to define domain concepts and their relationships. This alone, however, can't fully address the need for describing executable behavior. Using the domain models for data validation, transformation and other application specific reasoning typically requires expressivity of rule languages. In this webinar we show how to use SPARQL to define efficient business rules and constraint checks that will work with any RDF database.

This webinar will:

• Demonstrate the use of SPARQL and SPIN for tasks such as unit conversion, computer games, and executable domain-specific languages.
• Discuss the advantages of combining best practices from the object oriented world with the flexibility of the Semantic Web languages.
• Show how to define new SPARQL functions and reusable query templates

(SPIN = SPARQL Inferencing Notation; see Introducing SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation) and/or http://spinrdf.org/)

Webinar III: Recording of Webinar III is available here

Rapid Assembly of Semantic Business Applications,
May 20, 2009, 2pm ET.

In today's global, online economy, enterprises must become more agile in order to survive. Business policies and requirements are constantly changing to keep up with new opportunities, government regulations, technology capabilities and competitor offerings. Meanwhile, budgets and timelines are getting tighter. All of these trends make the traditional way of developing applications far too inefficient for today's business needs. Solutions based on the Semantic Web standards offer flexibility and responsiveness to change.

This Webinar will show how dynamic semantic business applications can be assembled faster than traditional approaches, by demonstrating how to:

• Quickly create a deployable application based on Semantic Web data models
• Incorporate new data sources without incurring a costly impact on existing data structures
• Support new business requirements by evolving the business application without disrupting application logic

Recordings

Recording of Webinar III, May 20, 2009: Rapid Assembly of Semantic Business Applications

Recording of Webinar II, April 1, 2009: SPARQL for Business Rules and Constraint Checking: Introducing SPIN

Recordings (full, demo only) of Webinar I, March 11, 2009: Using SPARQL for Dynamic Business Applications

Downloads

Free evaluation copies: TopBraid Composer - standard and Maestro Editions available

More information

TopBraid Composer Maestro Edition Datasheet (PDF)

TopBraid Composer Datasheet (PDF)

Introducing SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation)

SPARQLMotion Tutorial (PDF)

Composing the Semantic Web (Blog)