David Provost talks with Talis about his report of a Semantic Web industry ‘On the Cusp’
In our latest podcast I talk to David Provost about his recent report on the Semantic Web industry, On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry. I reviewed this report for ZDNet when it was published at the end of last month.
We discuss the report and its findings, before turning to consider the engagement of ‘mainstream’ analysts with semantic technologies.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- ESTC panel session
- Forrester
- Gartner
- Gomez
- Hurdles in the Business Case for the Semantic Web (PDF), David’s thesis
- MIT
- Mondeca
- On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry (PDF), David’s report
- ontoprise
- Open Calais
- Semantic Business, David’s blog
- Semantic Wave report
- Sloan Business School
- Nova Spivack
- Thomson Reuters
- Top Quadrant
- Twine
- Yahoo! Searchmonkey
This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 7 October, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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October 9th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
[...] and some of his views on the semantic technology industry. The 30 minute podcast is available, here, as part of my ongoing series of podcast interviews. posted by Paul Miller October 9, 2008 @ 7:00 [...]
October 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
First things first - I am NOT the convicted felon!
I think the analyst firms are riding the hyped wave at about the same speed as your average business. I spoke about the semantic web at Garnter’s Web Innovation Summit this past September in L.A. What I found were a bunch of folks still trying to grasp “Web 2.0″ while I was up there talking about “3.0″ and “4.0!” But I was there! Nick Gall of Gartner is interested in the semantic space, and did an excellent presentation on it. I expect we’ll see more from Gartner sooner than later. Then there’s Leslie Owens - who was a great practitioner in the taxonomy world, and is now covering the space for Forrester. It’s not a large leap from there to more complex semantics.
I think the best point in this report and podcast was to get businesses thinking about it. We tend to talk a lot to ourselves, and have forgotten how to talk, as David so well put it, “comprehensibly” to the majority of those in the business world. Thanks to you both for continuing to support the good fight!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Hi Christine
hmm… I was so sure it was you…
Must be Tom, then.
Good points re the analysts… wonder if they’d like to come on the air and talk…?
October 10th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
[...] David Provost talks with Talis about his report of a Semantic Web industry ‘On the Cusp’ [...]
October 20th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
[...] more reading (and listening) material, subscribe to the Nodalities blog and podcasts. There’s a good interview with David Provost I recommend, discussing many of the things I’ve spoken about here, but also his recently [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I’ve tried to access the PDFs mentioned in the podcast (namely Hurdles in the Business Case for the Semantic Web and On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry), but the both links are broken. Can you please fix them?
thanks in advance
January 8th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Alex
sorry about that; David’s moved his blogs and websites around, and those links have broken in the process.
I’ll ask David where they’ve ended up (as I can’t see them anywhere obvious on the new site), and fix the links…
Paul
January 12th, 2009 at 9:22 am
http://www.davidprovost.com/Resources/Semantic%20Web%20Industry%20Revie.pdf is now at http://davidjprovost.typepad.com/Semantic_Web_Industry_Review.pdf.
I have amended the post accordingly.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
And http://www.davidprovost.com/Resources/Business%20Hurdles%20for%20the%20Se.pdf is now at http://davidjprovost.typepad.com/Thesis.pdf. Again, I’ve amended the link above.