We had 39 registered participants, and a great selection of papers and scripting challenge entries. There are some some photos of the workshop available, and the proceedings are now published as CEUR-WS Vol. 248.

The Winner of the Semantic Scripting Challenge was Joshua Shinavier for “Ripple: Functional Programs as Linked Data“. See the screencast and download the code at http://ripple.fortytwo.net. Well done Joshua!

In order to exploit the client support of LDAP directories with the semantic expressivity of RDF knowledge bases, we aim at integrating RDF knowledge bases into LDAP directory services.

LDAP 2 SPARQL is a Backend to the widely used OpenLDAP server. It translates LDAP queries into SPARQL queries, asks a SPARQL endpoint and translates the result back to LDIF.

We’ve just released LDAP 2 SPARQL 0.2, the first official version the backend. It was presented as a Demo at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference this week …