6 June 2011 - Pistoia Alliance Technical Committee Open Teleconference and Webinar
This open meeting of the Pistoia Alliance Technical Committee tackled issues associated with publishing data in open data formats and how to create and build structured queries over HTTP. Speakers discussed RDF and OData. A recording of the webinar is available.
Pierre Menard, Pistoia Alliance Technical Committee Chair, led and moderated this one and a half hour webinar about the history and benefits of two open data formats. RDF and SPARQL were reviewed by Bob Stanley, CEO, IO Informatics and Eric Prud'hommeaux, W3C HCLSIG. Pablo Castro of Microsoft detailed the OData protocol, which he invented. The meeting was 80% informational and 20% intended to assess the type of architecture preferred by members of the Pistoia Alliance and assess willingness of organizations to engage in this area. Should the Pistoia Alliance encourage data services to be implemented using these approaches? Would they be better than custom-built interfaces?
A recorded version of the webinar is available below. The speakers' presentations are also available on the Pistoia Alliance Slideshare page or by clicking the links in the list below. The times after the presentation titles indicate the corresponding times in the video if you wish to skip through it.
- Pierre Menard: Open Data and Query Services: through 10:00
- Bob Stanley (IO Informatics): Resource Description Framework Approach to Data Publication and Federation: 10:00 to 23:52
- Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C): First Pass at RDF ELNs: 23:54 to 45:00
- Pablo Castro (Microsoft): Open Data Protocol (OData): 45:00 to end