http://www.franz.com AllegroGraph news from Franz Inc. en-US Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:15:00 GMT Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:15:00 GMT webmaster@franz.com http://www.franz.com/agraph/services/conferences_seminars/semantic_technologies_v18.lhtml?from=rss A new pillar of the web is RDF, a W3C supported technology to represent structured and unstructured metadata and to link very diverse data sets into a linked web of data. The geospatial community is starting to incorporate the same technology to model geospatial objects and annotate objects with metadata. The USGS National Map project being a great example. As a provider of RDF based software and services, we see an increased interest from telecom providers, the transportation industry and defense integrators in tracking hundreds of thousands to millions of objects in real time. Consider fleets of trucks, swarms of airplanes, track data for soldiers on the (urban) battle field, track data for endangered animals, or location based services like Loopt. In this presentation we will discuss and demonstrate the role of semantic technologies and performance considerations in developing these projects. http://www.franz.com/agraph/services/conferences_seminars/semantic_technologies_v17.lhtml?from=rss Thursday, April 23: 10:00 AM Pacific. In this presentation we will discuss how to improve data usability with Life Science datasets using AllegroGraph's Federation and Dynamic Materialization capabilities. The presentation will describe several examples from the Life Sciences domain and explore several techniques for these real world use cases. We will also cover some of the other new features available in the new AllegroGraph version 3.2. http://agraph.franz.com/allegrograph/doc/change-history.html#changes311to320 AllegroGraph 3.2 has been released. The primary emphasis for this version was optimizing query performance - on average, an order of magnitude faster. For a complete listing of the improvements and new features, please see the Change History. http://agraph.franz.com/allegrograph/doc/change-history.html#changes310to311 AllegroGraph 3.1.1 has been released. This version contains many improvements and new features to AllegroGraph. Included are improvements to SPARQL, Federation, the Social Network Analysis library, RDFS++ reasoner improvements; Java interface improvements, and a new Python client. http://agraph.franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/index.lhtml The most recent webinar was titled Selecting the RIGHT Database for your Project, and discusses the similarities and differences between relational databases, object oriented databases and RDF triple stores. We're recorded several webinar topics over the past few months, including Querying Federated Knowledge for Web 3.0 Applications, Social Network Analytics using an RDF Database, GeoTemporal Reasoning with AllegroGraph, plus other topics.