Jena XX
Date: August 27, 2020 - 5pm London, 6pm Berlin and 12pm New York and 9am San Francisco Time
Chapter: Global
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Location: web video chat
20 years of Jena an RDF API for Java
On a Monday August 28, 2000 Brian McBride a researcher and HP employee at Bristol Labs in the UK having examined existing tools and contemplated new ideas for a RDF API in the Java ecosystem for some time announced a new RDF API on the W3C RDF mailing list. Long before the project became a top level Apache project on April 18, 2012 it was simply known as Jena. But at that point Jena already had a long history for an open source project dedicated to the Semantic Web activity at the W3C.
Jena today is more than a simple Java implementation of the RDF specifications. Over the years many new innovations were introduced that shaped the RDF and Semantic Web landscape itself significantly. Among them are query languages for RDF, efficient storage support and a HTTP RDF server enabling RESTful SPARQL endpoints just to mention a few. It is no surprise that many of the concepts behind these contributions later found their expression and way into W3C recommendations, the highest form of endorsement by the W3C. Other innovations entered the RDF world as independent contributions in the form of extensions to the core project such as GeoSPARQL, JenaBeans and many more. All enabled and inspired by the availability of an open core set of features found in the Jena API. At this lotico event we are going to celebrate and recall some of the Jena milestones and learn from project contributors about the state of the art.
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Session-Type: Community - API - Technology - History Session-Level: Beginner - Intermediate