Re: linked data tutorial, lessons learnt

PS. The mighty capable organizers, Aldo and Valentino, got an art
exhibition co-located with the conference. Getting a bit of culture in
there was brilliant :-)

2009/1/23 Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>:
> Somewhat late, but maybe useful for someone:
>
> At the Italian semweb conference SWAP 2008 [1] I did a tutorial, about
> 15-20 attendees.
>
> The first half, a presentation was straightforward and I think
> functional, I used a cut-down & tweaked version [2] of the slides
> ChrisB & co. used in Karlsruhe.
>
> The second half hands-on would have been a major embarrassment had it
> not been for danbri. I wasn't sure of the demographic, so had decided
> to play it by ear, something using FOAF. The night before it occurred
> to me to set up ftp on my server so people could actually publish
> stuff...after several hours I had no joy on the admin. Then I thought
> it would be *much* neater to set things up for POSTing stuff to the
> server via HTTP. Naturally I didn't get my Apache config sorted in
> time.
>
> My fallback was ssh. Which didn't work on the venue's network.
>
> Dan bailed me out by suggesting the use of a Wiki for upload, and he
> had an ARC install to play with, so the session basically turned into
> a SPARQL tutorial. It was rather clumsy - e.g. I was using the
> computer in the venue, Windows XP and IE are not friendly to even
> things like text editing.
>
> Lessons learnt: mostly preparation might have helped :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
> [1] http://www.swapconf.it/2008
> [2] http://www.swapconf.it/2008/tutorial_day.php
>
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> http://danny.ayers.name
>



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