Building a Web 3.0 application today, an architect needs to “THINK” like Web 3.0. What is it that makes a web 3.0 application – and how can it be leveraged in building new age enterprise systems. This workshop aims at presenting and discussing the concepts, techniques & tools/technologies that can be leveraged to build new generation of Enterprise Applications & Systems.

It is not a workshop on social computing, or building social media etc (which is often seen as the most popular face of Web 3.0), nor is it a scholarly discussion of Semantics and RDF & Ontologies which is touted to be the power behind Web 3.0.

This workshop is instead intended to be a recipe, where collaborative computing, semantics, etc are ingredients and discusses the techniques of bringing them together to build juicy, new age enterprise applications.

Summary
Web 3.0 brings with itself a new wave of computing paradigms, predominantly around the collaborative computing & semantic technologies. At the face of it, these may seem divergent. Semantic techniques aim at making the machines understand the content & leverage it to achieve intelligent paradigms. Collaborative computing on the other hand puts the focus on people & communities in shaping the content, behavior and direction towards the outcome. Bringing the two together effectively is a challenge for enterprise architects today. From an architect’s point of view some questions that are critical to unravel this paradigm are:

• How can the concepts of semantic web & semantic technologies be applied to enterprise applications
• How relevant are social and collaborative computing paradigms to the enterprise
• What are the salient features that identify a Web 3.0 (& Web 3.0) application
• How can we use the web as a platform for developing and delivering new age applications
• Why are the technologies like PHP, MySQL, Drupal, Ruby on Rails gaining popularity in this paradigm

This two day workshop addresses the above questions & presents practical approaches of leveraging these concepts to build everyday enterprise applications. This workshop has a special focus on how to “THINK Web 3.0” and presents distilled experiences working with IIT Kanpur and leading educational organizations in India.