Highlight of the program includes innovators from industry and academia.

Jupitermedia Corporation, today announced the program for LinkedData Planet Spring 2008 Conference & Expo, which runs in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on June 17-18, 2008. It states that the theme of the conference is the confluence of enterprise and Internet computing and the progression from a Web of linked documents to a Web of linked data.

The company says, W3C Director Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and advocate of linking data, will deliver a keynote address on June 17. The keynote speakers include key contributors in the field of semantics and linked data, such as OpenLink founder and CEO Kingsley Idehen. Other keynote speakers include Talis CTO Ian Davis, OntoText founder Atanas Kiryakov and IBM VP & CTO Dr. Anant Jhingran. Idehen will present "Creating, Deploying and Exploiting Linked Data" and Davis will discuss "The Semantic Web as a Blue Ocean Opportunity."

It declares that a faculty of experts will present sessions about querying linked data and integrating data from disparate sources, including content management systems and tables in SQL databases. Two standards architects at Oracle, Dr. Ashok Malhotra and Jim Melton, will discuss exposing RDF data from SQL databases. Melton is the long-time editor of the international SQL standard. Amber Swope and Jeffrey Deskins of JustSystems will present a session about the marriage of content management systems, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture and linked data. Andy Seaborne of HP Labs, member of the W3C RDF Data Access Working Group, will speak about SPARQL and querying RDF data.

The program includes several sessions about semantic technologies and machine intelligence. Professor James Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Semantic Web visionary, will discuss enterprise data integration and the future of data in "The Fellowship of the Web: The Two Towers." Marcus Tresvani of Relevant Digital will speak about SOA and semantic discovery for enterprises and consumers. Dr. Rachel Yager will speak about best practices in semantic system development. Barak Pridor, CEO of Reuters Clear Forest, will discuss semantic metadata services, including Reuters Calais Web service, added the company.