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Wraps come off data.gov.uk

Zach Beauvais — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:57:46 +0000

Today saw the official launch of the UK government’s data.gov.uk. We’d like to congratulate the data.gov.uk team and look forward to the exciting innovation this will foster. More information about Talis’ involvement with the project can be found in our press release.

January Open Day Full

Zach Beauvais — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:50:25 +0000

All available seats have been booked for the January Platform Open Day.

There are still some spaces left in February and March, so please sign up for those over on platform/events.

Platform Datasets Webinar

Zach Beauvais — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:11:07 +0000

Join us online for our monthly Datasets webinar this Thursday afternoon (19th November) from 2 to 3. We’ll be showing you how to work with linked data using SPARQL. Come prepared with questions, and register here.

Talis Platform Open Days

Zach Beauvais — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:29:55 +0000

Open days are from 11:00 to 4:00 on:

20th January, 2010
17th February, 2010
and 24th March, 2010

Interested in learning more about Linked Data, SPARQL and working with datasets from the BBC, UK Government, and others? Come join us for a series of free Open Days at the Talis offices in Birmingham. Each day will include presentations on these and other topics, and a chance to work hands-on with public data. If you are prepared to come with questions and challenges for the team, we’ll even throw in lunch. Email Zach to RSVP.

Talis Supports Exploration with KMI

Zach Beauvais — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Talis is part-funding a PhD studentship at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). Ms Chwhynny Overbeeke will be “Supporting the Exploration of Research Spaces” by researching the use of Semantic Web technologies and conventional data sources to enhance and streamline the research process. “The research will build on and be informed by a variety of technologies and approaches developed at Talis and KMi, including the Talis Platform, Talis Aspire, Watson, FLOR, and Hoonoh.” More information on KMI news.

Platform Webinars

Zach Beauvais — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:07:59 +0000

On 24th September, Talis hosted its first Platform webinar. Ian Davis introduced ProductDB, a Linked-Data view on ProductWiki, and ran through ways to work with the dataset. The next webinar will feature Jeni Tennison who will demonstrate some of her public datasets and how to make use of them. It will take place on Thursday, 22nd October at 1:30PM (GMT) and you can register for free here.

Linked Data Meetup

Zach Beauvais — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:34:40 +0000

Image via CrunchBase

Talis is sponsoring the first Linked Data Meetup!. The Meetup will be in London on Wednesday, 9th September. Talis’ Tom Heath and Leigh Dodds will both be presenting, and there are rumours of a free bar in the evening. For more information, and to let us know you’re coming, have a look st the Meetup website: http://www.meetup.com/Web-Of-Data/calendar/11056905/.

Jim Hendler and Li Ding talk with Talis about Data.gov and RDF

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:15:04 +0000

In this podcast Paul Miller talks with Jim Hendler and Li Ding of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

We discuss work that they and colleagues have been undertaking to convert chunks of the US Federal Government data released via the data.gov portal to RDF.

Talis at Second Guardian Hack Day

Zach Beauvais — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:16:37 +0000

Leigh Dodds and Ian Davis were invited to participate in the second Guardian Hack Day on 30th and 31st July. Leigh and some fellow hackers from the BBC put together a visualisation mashup making use of MP’s information from the Guardian and BBC Programme information, both using the Talis Platform to provide useful datasets. The screencast is available on the Platform Demo page.

Head of UK e-Services at OPSI talks with Talis

Zach Beauvais — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:11:22 +0000

John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the UK Government’s Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), and co-chair of the W3C’s e-Government Interest Group in a podcast with Paul Miller discussing open access, E-Government and Linked Data. Podcast notes here