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Getting Ready for the Semantic Web with TopBraid Suite

NEXT CLASSES:

Sept. 13-16, 2010, Washington DC area

Dec. 6-9, 2010, Washington  DC area
Register here for 4-day Training Classes-Washington, DC

Now in its 7th Year, TopQuadrant in collaboration with Jim Hendler is offering a program of Public and On-Site trainings and workshops on Semantic Web technologies and use of TopBraid Suite capabilities for semantic modeling, querying and application development.

Over the last 7 years more than 800 people have taken these trainings. The well established curriculum is being continuously updated to reflect new developments in the technology, tools and industry. 

Upcoming Classes

The training consists of four days of classes covering three progressive modules that emphasize interactive participation, hands-on exercises, exploration and evaluation of the technology and its capabilities and applications.

* Group Discounts are available.
** Day 1 only (Executive Briefing) is available on limited basis for $500 per person. Contact trainings@topquadrant.com
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Content Covered

The program focuses on the use of semantic technology to enable the next generation of Enterprise Solutions for business and government. By popular demand, the program is designed to mentor executives, managers and 'change agents' with an overview of the expected impact and value propositions for semantic web applications (Module I) as well as to provide detail hands-on training for architects, application developers and ontology modelers (Modules II and III) covering a range of leading commercial and open source software components and tools.

These in-depth classes cover topical semantic and knowledge technology areas. Each offering in this series is jointly designed and delivered with Jim Hendler to feature the latest content in this important, emerging field, including:

• case studies and success stories
• standards and strategic direction
• products and vendors
• state-of-the-art knowledge and experience

The curriculum emphasizes interactive participation, exploration and evaluation.

In 2008-2009, this flexible program of classes will be offered in the Washington, DC or Mountain View, CA on an approximate quarterly basis. The next dates are given in the table above.

For other locations (US and international) and for groups wanting to take advantage of on-site education, tailored to their specific needs, we continue to offer private trainings. Please see our On-site Programs and Price List. Contact us at (703) 299-9330 or trainings@topquadrant.com for questions or requests.

Skills and Knowledge Gained include:

• Understand Semantic Capabilities: Application Areas, Business Value and Success Stories
• Know the status of W3C's semantic layers - languages standards and technology roadmap
• Explore differences between semantic technology vs. relational DB and object technologies
• Explore the roles of kinds of semantic web products and tools in a semantic deployment architecture.
• Gain experience using an industrial grade ontology editor (TopBraid Composer) to create, manage and utilize semantic models
• Use SPARQL to query, filter and transform semantic data.
• Gain hands-on experience building a new class of applications ("model-driven") to simplify access to distributed information.
• Import information from many common data sources (RSS, spreadsheets, databases, etc.)
• Examine ontology-driven approaches for merging and integrating data

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Venue Information

East Coast Trainings are held at:
Learning Tree Alexandria Education Center, VA
1925 Ballenger Avenue
Suite 200
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Main tel: 703-486-0026
Main fax: 703-519-1945

Just a few minutes’ walk across the street from the King Street metro (Yellow or Blue line) and the train station. For more information and details on how to get there, see Training Venue Details.

Hotel accomodations closest to this venue
(Note: LearningTree rates may be available for some of these hotels - see http://www.learningtree.com/htfu/location.aspx?id=uswd74#hotels for booking codes.)

West Coast - Silicon Valley
NASA Research Park
Building 19
Moffett Field, California 94035
Directions

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About the Series, Designers and Instructors

Representing a unique combination of seminal researchers, thought leaders and experienced practitioners in this emerging field, TopQuadrant personnel together with Jim Hendler are well-qualified to educate about and enable the promise of semantic solutions.

TopQuadrant provides the industry leading platform for semantic-enabled solutions — TopBraid Suite — supported by complementary services and trainings. TopBraid Suite semantic solution products are part of an evolving, best of breed, open architecture platform built specifically to implement W3C semantic web standards. To complement its integrated products, TopQuadrant provides world-class services and training to help customers to implement solutions based on Semantic Web technology. Our comprehensive training curriculum on Semantic Web Technologies and TopBraid Products ranges from one day Executive Briefings to deeply technical Hands-on Training. We maintain a constant watch on semantic technology products, vendors and standards to support our semantic technology trainings and projects with practical evaluations of the current state of practice combined with a strategic view of the role and value of these technologies. Our trainings embody a pragmatic, solutions lifecycle approach that combines tools, methods, knowledge assets, expertise and supporting services.

Jim Hendler is the Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he directs the "Future of Information" Project and has appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Cognitive Science Dept. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Web Science Research Initiative headquartered at MIT. Hendler has authored about 200 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, agent-based computing and high performance processing. As Chief Scientist and Program Manager at DARPA for the DAML program, he has been one of the major, seminal drivers in the creation of the Semantic Web, for which he was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He continues to be a prominent player in the W3C’s Semantic Web Activity. and is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Coordination Group. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

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Some of the companies attending past workshops

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What attendees are saying

Nancy Adam Turner, MLIS, Senior Reference Librarian/ Knowledge Specialist, Head Start Information and Publication Center
"The Semantic Web seminar program offered by Top Quadrant is both very informative as well as interesting covering cutting edge aspects of one the newest Internet Applications namely RDF/OWL- With the dynamic leadership of Prof. James Hendler, University of Maryland; Mindswap.org and Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant. The training offered a high quality peer group learning environment and the interactive sessions allowing participants from all types of IT/ KM /Librarianship and Computer Engineering field to benefit from each others professional experience. I would definitely recommend this program to anyone in the Library/ Information/ Knowledge management arena as a valuable tool in the ever changing technology."

Ed Luczak, Sr. Consulting Engineer, CSC
"I attended the 4-day tutorial series on Semantic Technologies conducted by TopQuadrant and Jim Hendler in November and December 2003, and found it to be top-notch. Hendler is a leading researcher in the semantic web field, and the TopQuadrant instructors are experienced practitioners in semantic technologies. The tutorial provided valuable insights into how semantic web technologies will be applied, and some solid hands-on exercises using the new RDF and OWL language specifications."

Sue Marshall, Associate, Booz-Allen & Hamilton (April, 2006 training)
"I loved the class, it was excellent, Dean Allemang is a superb teacher."

Christopher Bunk, Knowledge Systems Engineer, ARES Corporation (February, 2006 training)
"Your class was excellent! I learned a tremendous amount about both practical applications of semantic technologies and the potential and future vision of the semantic web."

Harold Frisch, Senior Systems Engineer, NASA
"The two-day executive overview was well worth the time and effort"

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Contents

Content Covered

Skills and Knowledge Gained

Venue Information

About the Series, Designers and Instructors

Previous Attendees

What Attendees are Saying

Registration

Next Classes, Wash. DC area

Sept. 13-16, 2010

Dec. 6-9, 2010

Online Registration

Downloads

See Outline of the Class in:
TopQuadrant Trainings Curriculum Flyer (PDF)

On-site Programs and Price List (PDF)

Advanced Ontology Development Workshop Flyer (PDF)

TopBraid Suite Brochure (PDF)

More information

Contact us at (703) 299-9330 or trainings@topquadrant.com for questions or requests.