Perl
Hacker's Bootcamp @ WIMS'11
Perl
is a mature programming language with a strong history as a hacker's
"swiss army chainsaw", a favorite system administrator's tool, but also
suitable for creating highly scalable web applications, for data
analysis and for computational linguistics. Importantly, CPAN is
arguably the software world's best established repository for free
software, and has a strong social QA process.
A small
community of Semantic Web practioneers have created a number of good
Perl tools, and we have invited some of the leaders of this community
to host a "hacker's bootcamp" to help you get going writing practical
applications.
Amongst these
tools are parsers, serializers, storage layer and a low-level API for
working with RDF. We also have a SPARQL 1.1 implementation that will be
one of the first conformant implementations. We can further bind to the
Redland C library to take advantage of the speed it offers. We have a
simple test framework, and web server frameworks for serving Linked
Data and for setting up SPARQL endpoints. There is a cutting-edge RDFa
parser, along with modules to lift data using GRDDL, microformats,
microdata. We can also export RDF to many other formats. Finally, we
have a very interesting stack for using WebID to limit access to parts
of a graph. In the works, there are reasoners, RDFa-based templating
and high-level APIs.
Organisers:
Kjetil
Kjernsmo
Ph.d. Research Fellow, University of Oslo, Norway
Gregory Todd Williams
Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
USA