Talis Platform Advisory Group kicks off
That’s it. We’re at kick-off strength, and off we go with the Talis Platform Advisory Group.
Eight great individuals from around the world, each bringing a very different perspective and set of experiences, are joining with Senior Managers and Developers from Talis in frank and open discussion of the global trends and realities to which the Talis Platform is our considered reaction.
The Semantic Web, Web 3.0, the Web of Data, Collective Intelligence, Hyperdata. Whatever you want to call it, a remarkable number of technologies, attitudes, external trends and serendipitous opportunities are coming together in ways that presage a truly disruptive step change in the extent to which John Battelle’s Database of Intentions can be made manifest.
We’re not driving toward ‘one true ontology’, we’re not expecting everyone on the Web to start crafting RDF, and we’re not peddling philosophically pure yet abstract models as somehow ‘better’ than the pragmatic approaches currently taken to the construction of social (and) other networks. Rather, we are creating opportunities whereby existing data, existing behaviours, and existing connections can be made far more powerful. Inference, association, context, and role come into play, delivering a richer and more intuitive way to express oneself and one’s desires, and to make existing investments and existing data work far harder to realise their full potential.
You’ll be hearing a lot more of this over the coming months, but a white paper from earlier this year should provide a good taster for now, and Talis Platform News keeps subscribers aware of the latest news each month.
I am truly delighted that such a knowledgeable group have agreed to give up some small portion of their time to push back against our ideas, to share their perspectives, and to work with us in growing this still-nascent market to the benefit of us all.
Today’s members are;
I’m still in discussion with some other potential participants, and anyone else who thinks they should be at the table is welcome to get in touch.
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September 20th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
I don’t think *I* should be at the table, but I do have a suggestion: the Public Library of Science team are very forward-looking and tech-savvy, and I could see having a PLoS person on a Talis advisory board being the beginning of a beautiful friendship…