Kingsley Idehen talks about OpenLink Software, Linked Data and the Semantic Web
In our latest podcast I talk with Kingsley Idehen, President and CEO of OpenLink Software. We discuss OpenLink’s approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to a broader discussion of Linked Data; a movement with which Kingsley has been closely involved.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- 4GL
- Tim Berners-Lee keynote, WWW2008, Beijing
- Tim Berners-Lee’s Linked Data principles
- Dataportability
- DBpedia
- Orri Erling
- Giant Global Graph
- GRDDL
- JDBC
- Kubl
- Linked Data
- Linked Data on the Web workshop
- Linked Data Planet
- Microformats
- ODBC
- OLE DB
- OpenLink Dataspaces
- OpenLink Software
- Oracle
- Postgres
- RDF
- SPARQL
- Sybase
- UMBEL
- Unisys
- Virtuoso (and its history)
- Wikipedia
- WWW2007, Banff, Canada
- WWW2008, Beijing, China
- XMLA
- Zitgist
This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 13 May, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. Thanks are due to Andrew Peterson for his advice on editing the audio.
For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.
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