Silk:MakingTheSemanticWebFunctional
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Date: 2011-05-19
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Room:
BBL 165
Speaker: Erik Hesselink
Title: Silk: Making the Semantic Web Functional
Abstract
At
Silk, we develop a web application that allows
users to create, query and visualize data in any way that they want. A
user creates documents, which can contain links and tags, which add
meaning to the data. They can then use a powerful, easy to use
interface to navigate and query this data, and visualize it in graphs
and on maps. We use Haskell for our backend, and employ many advanced
functional programming techniques, like generic programming, GADTs and
type families. The client is a web application written in Javascript.
Here, we also use function programming techniques: reactive
programming, arrows, and rewrite rules. In this talk I will demo Silk,
give more detail about the application and the techniques we use, and
give some information about working at Silk, either as a job, or as an
experimentation project or master's thesis.
