We explore the background to InfoChimps, and discuss their aspiration to build a marketplace in which people can contribute and find data – both freely available and commercial.

We discuss Collibra, and the problems that many enterprises face in understanding and integrating data held in diverse silos.

We discuss the evolution of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), consider some of the use cases for it, and look at its’ relevance to the Semantic Web community.

Towards the end of the conversation we refer to a recent workshop organised by XBRL International and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 22 September, 2009.

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We discuss mySociety’s approach to promoting transparency in Government, and consider some of their popular projects before exploring Tom’s views on moves by Government to make more of its data available for use and reuse.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Data.gov
• Fix My Street
• Free Our Data
• The Guardian
• Hansard
• Mapumental
• mySociety
• Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), and my recent podcast with John Sheridan
• OPSI Data Unlocking Service
• Power of Information Taskforce
• Recovery.gov
• Sunlight Foundation, and my recent podcast with David James
• They Work For You
• USAspending.gov

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 17 September, 2009.

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We discuss the company’s approach to ’social data discovery,’ and consider ways in which these techniques might be applied to the wealth of data emerging from Government in the United States and elsewhere.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• BigTable
• Aneesh Chopra
• data.gov
• Frazier Technology Ventures
• Freebase
• Vivek Kundra
• Kevin Merritt’s blog post, ‘Data.gov Needs to be a Community Effort‘
• Morgenthaler Ventures
• Tim O’Reilly, and his recent post on ‘Government as Platform‘
• SimpleDB
• Socrata
• Sunlight Labs, and my podcast with David James

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 16 September, 2009.

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We discuss the company’s ‘Answer Engine’ and consider the ways in which its technology can be seen as complementing rather than competing with more traditional search engines.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Bing
• Cambridge University
• David Letterman page on Wikipedia
• Powerset
• Siri, and my podcast with CTO Tom Gruber
• True Knowledge
• True Knowledge API
• True Knowledge Browser plugins
• True Knowledge Local Search
• Wolfram Alpha

This conversation was recorded on Monday 7 September, 2009.

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We discuss the Labs’ work to increase Government transparency by making public sector data such as that disseminated via Data.gov more useful.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• Apps for America 2
• Capitol Words
• Data.gov
• e-Democracy Camp
• Government 2.0 Camp
• Jim Hendler and Li Ding podcast, talking about conversion of Data.gov resources to RDF
• Vivek Kundra
• Lexis Nexis
• Mapumental video
• MySociety
• National Data Catalog
• OpenCongress
• OpenSecrets.org
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Principles of Open Government Data
• PublicMarkup.org
• Read the Bill
• Recovery.gov
• resource.org
• Sunlight API
• Sunlight Foundation
• Sunlight Labs
• Sunlight Labs Google Group
• Transparency Camp
• Westlaw

This conversation was recorded on Friday 14 August, 2009.

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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.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Dean Allemang (and my podcast with him)
• Apps for America
• Tim Berners-Lee (and my podcast with him)
• Data.gov portal
• Data.gov wiki at RPI
  • Agencies publishing data to Data.gov
  • Breakdown of data formats in Data.gov
  • Catalogue of data in Data.gov
  • Current issues in Data.gov
  • Demos for Data.gov data
  • Resource Guide for Government Data
• DBpedia
• Li Ding
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Exhibit
• FBI
• GeoNames
• Jim Hendler (and my earlier podcast with him)
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
• MCF
• MIT
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
• oeGOV
• Office of Science & Technology Policy
• Tim O’Reilly
• OWL
• Programming the Semantic Web (and my podcast with Jamie Taylor)
• RDF
• RDFa
• RDFS
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Bill Roberts’ question about Linking
• Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist
• Nigel Shadbolt (and my podcast with him)
• SKOS
• SPARQL
• Stanford
• Sunlight Foundation
• Sunlight Labs
• Swoogle
• Tabulator
• Jeni Tennison
• University of Maryland
• Danny Weitzner

This conversation was recorded on Friday 7 August, 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 311
• Canada25
• data.gov
• EveryBlock
• Jim Hendler
• OpenWeb Vancouver
• Public Sector Information Directive
• ReadWriteWeb’s Coverage of Vancouver’s vote
• David Weinberger

This conversation was recorded on Friday 31 July, 2009.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cabinet Office
• Creative Commons
• Crown Copyright
• Directgov
• Government CIO’s Council
• hmg.gov.uk
• London Gazette
• MySociety
• The National Archives
• Obama’s memorandum on Transparency and Open Government
• Office of Public Sector Information
• OPSI’s Click-Use licenses
• OPSI’s non-transactional license draft
• PerSpectIves blog
• The Power of Information report
• RDF
• RDFa, and my podcast with Mark Birbeck
• SPARQL
• Wiki-Government

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 22 July, 2009.

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