Mitchell Smith

Array BioPharma Inc.

The Semantic Web — RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL (Part 1 of 2)

The Semantic Web — RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL (Part 2 of 2)

Learn more about the technologies underlying the Semantic Web and their current usage within open-source projects, commercial products, and industries.

Resource Description Framework (RDF) provides a lightweight general-purpose system to support the exchange of knowledge. Learn about the RDF specification, web services to exchange and query RDF, its relationship to UML, semantics, and current tools for composing and deploying RDF.

RDF Schema describes RDF vocabularies in a similar relationship as exists between XML and XML Schema. This session will cover the RDF Schema specification and some example ontologies. Web Ontology Language (OWL) builds upon RDF and RDF Schema and allows a greater vocabulary for properties and classes. Learn about the OWL specification, OWL editors, parsers, reasoners, as well as some ontologies built in OWL.

No knowledge of the Semantic web is assumed. Some knowledge of Python is recommended.

Mitchell Smith is Chief Software Architect at Array BioPharma Inc., a drug discovery company, in Boulder Colorado. He has twenty one years of experience developing software solutions, and has been working with Python for five years. He is currently working to take the chemoinformatics and bioinformatics solutions put in place over the last five years and developing decision support and data mining solutions using Java and Python. He is also providing technical leadership in filling out the informatics portion of the Array drug discovery platform. Prior to joining Array, Mitch worked at Rational Software Cooperation, where he co-architected a next-generation requirements management system using J2EE and XML technologies. Mitch holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Mitch is an avid year-round mountain biker; he also enjoys camping and overseas vacations. Email: Mitchell.Smith@arraybiopharma.com