Way back in the mists of time, aka July 2005, when I was a young, starry-eyed PhD student, I found myself in the hills outside Madrid with 50 other people fitting the same description. The occasion was the International Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web, and in the week that followed we received a crash course in Semantic Web technologies, delivered by some of the top researchers in the field.

This year I return to the school as a tutor, and I’m taking three of my Talis colleagues with me — one each from the Consulting, Kasabi and Platform teams. I’m intrigued to see what they each make of it, bringing as they do a really diverse range of skills and experience, from training people in the fundamentals of Linked Data, to Web design and user experience, to frontline operation of our Talis Platform.

We’re also very proud to be sponsors of the Summer School. As part of this arrangement we’re sponsoring a student from Brazil to attend the school, and in the next few days I’ll be introducing her and her work through a post on this blog. Stay tuned.