Peter Mika talks about SearchMonkey and the Semantic Technology Conference

In our latest podcast I talk with Peter Mika of Yahoo! Research. Peter is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of his presentation as well as learning more about Yahoo! bringing semantic technologies to the mainstream with SearchMonkey.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri: The impact of caching on search engines. SIGIR 2007: 183-190
- Dave Beckett’s podcast with Danny Ayers
- Dublin Core
- eRDF
- European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife - and the workshop on Semantic Search
- FOAF
- Tom Heath’s podcast
- Jim Hendler’s podcast
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Karlsruhe
- Microformats
- Peter Mika
- RDF
- RDFa
- SearchMonkey, and the Developers Event on 15 May (the mailing list that Peter mentioned is only available to those who sign up here for the beta programme)
- Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose - and Peter Mika’s panel and paper
- Semantic Web Challenge
- Yahoo! Research
This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 8 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.
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