It will not be news to regular readers of this blog that we at Talis have been working for a while on the Talis Platform.

This builds upon our market-leading position supplying information management systems to traditional markets in the UK and Ireland, and we have spent the past couple of years investing significantly in the organisational and technological change required to deliver a robust and modern technology Platform capable of global reach. Soundly based upon Semantic Web, ‘Web 2.0’ and existing Internet technologies, a set of open RESTful APIs, and a fundamental rethinking of the value and ownership of data, Talis’ Platform enables innovative applications that learn from and assist their user to be created by any software developer. Some of the rationale behind the decisions made to date is outlined in a recent Talis white paper [PDF].

We’ve been working on the Platform for a while and are very pleased, both by our technical progress and by our ability to engage with and attract respected members of the community such as Danny Ayers to share the journey with us.

As we reach the point at which aspects of the Platform begin to see the light of day outside our offices, it’s time to further validate our ideas with leading practitioners across the sector, and to ensure early engagement with their perceptions of change. To that end, we are forming a new Advisory Group over the summer of 2007, and I very much look forward to engaging in the discussions to come.

More details to follow, as some of those I’ve approached begin to step forward.

Today’s CC-licensed picture from Flickr is by Matt Chan, and a great example of good advice!

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