Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Web of Data &  Linked Open Data. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The purpose of the group is to provide a process for new members to quickly understand the technologies behind the Semantic Web, an …

A place for Madisonian developers interested in learning more about MongoDB: the open-source, document database from 10gen. Hopefully the group can expand the use of MongoDB at companies within the area, as well as provide a place to share knowledge and experience.

Big Data Madison promotes the understanding and adoption of technologies used to acquire, store, and analyze the tsunami of data created by social media interactions, mobile devices, website clickstreams, retail transactions, computer log files, embedded processors, and sensors. Everyone is encouraged to join, no level of experience is too basic to join and participate. We'll cover technologies like Hadoop, BigTable, Kafka, Cassandra, Lucene, and more!