Thomas Bandholtz is a Consultant and Project manager for government and industry (media, banks, energy). In informatics since mid 80s, Thomas started WS/SOA in 1998 with an early focus on semantics. Thomas contributed to ISO Topic Map standardization at OASIS and moved over to W3C Sematic Web in 2003. Thomas also made contributions to the SKOS standardization. Thomas is an open source product manager of iQvoc, and acts as an SKOS-XL vocabulary management tool. Thomas is currently driving Linked Environment Data, publishing the Environment Specimen Bank of the Federal Environment Agency, Germany, in SCOVO. Thomas is a member of the W3C eGovernment Interest Group (invited expert).

Implementing SOA Through Linked Data Speaker: Thomas Bandholtz, innoQ Day 2: Semantic Web Linked Data is a concise technical approach that can be leveraged to implement SOA. Some aspects are known from the REST architecture: every thing is a resource; URI design over service design; content negotiation. But the core feature of Linked Data is the linkage of datasets. Imagine an invoice directly linked to products and a customer by URI reference. As each dataset is rendered in RDF triples, everything can be accessed regardless to the respective schemas. If you want to know more, you may discover the schema statements on-the-fly (yet another URI reference in the data statement). Knowing the schema, you may post SPARQL queries and updates to federated endpoints. This makes perfect sense, for example, in a distributed masterdata scenario. Would need to agree on some enterprise ontology before you start? Definitely not. Start with some simple vocabularies derived from your relational data model as it is. This may evolve to a more expressive ontology later, but "keep it simple" is the silver bullet! October 6, 2010 - 15:30 Room: 004

Services and the Semantic Web Day 2: Expert Panel The relationship between SOA and semantic Web technologies and practices continues to be defined as this technology space continues to mature. This panel will discuss advances in semantic Web service technologies and platforms and will further address applicability to service-orientation practices. October 6, 2010 - 17:00 Room: 004 Panelists (in alphabetical order):Thomas Bandholtz, Johan Kumps, Joe McKendrick, Audrey Theunisz