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The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners.
July 10, 2007 - Cambridge - Massachusetts - USA 
This has been the third chat about the SemanticWeb at MIT in Cambridge. The idea is to get together people in the local area who are interested in and/or working in the Semantic Web. A typical form will be a few presentations of recent work or recent problems discovered, some moderated discussion in the round, and a large amount of unmoderated chat.
At the meeting two demos have been presented :
Eric presented SPASQL: the support of SPARQL for the MySQL database. The parsing of the SPARQL is performed in the MySQL database engine directly with a better efficiency and providing the capability of executing SPARQL queries on current deployed MySQL client libraries getting back the results through the conventional MySQL protocol. Basically, it is possible to run the very same query on relational databases and on triple stores. All this could lead for instance in storing the frequently changing data structures directly in a triple store or, for existing tables, adding new and/or irregular attributes in the triple store.
See also FeDeRate [FED]
