In my latest podcast I talk with Leigh Dodds, Programme Manager for the Talis Platform.

We discuss Talis Connected Commons, a recently announced initiative through which developers can host their public domain data in the Talis Platform for free and benefit from the Platform’s capabilities whilst also making their data available to others in the growing Linked Data ecosystem.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• BBC
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons CC0 License
• DBpedia
• Ingenta
• Internet Archive
• Linked Data
• Open Data Commons
• Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License
• Science Commons
• Science Commons Open Data Protocol
• Talis
• Talis Connected Commons
• Talis Platform

Image of Leigh Dodds © Gavin Bell, 2008

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

We discuss W3C’s continued engagement with Semantic Web activity around the world, touch upon current activity to enhance existing specifications such as SPARQL, and consider the success of the Linked Data meme.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, my podcast with him, and his talk at TED earlier this year
• DBpedia
• Energistics
• FOAF
• International Conference on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web
• Linked Data
• Merck
• Microformats
• Eric Miller
• Novartis
• Open Data
• OWL
• RDF
• RDFa
• Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose
• SPARQL
• SQL
• World Wide Web Conference, Madrid
• W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
• XBRL

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 8 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Oracle’s Jeff Pollock about his recently published book, The Semantic Web For Dummies.

We discuss the rationale behind the book and its intended audience, before turning to consideration of the impact that Semantic Technologies are having across a range of sectors.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• AdaptiveBlue
• Adaptive Information: Improving Business Through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration
• Tim Berners-Lee and his Linked Data talk at TED 2009
• Calais
• Cerebra
• Glue
• Linked Data
• Modulant
• OASIS
• Open Data
• Oracle
• OWL
• RDF
• SearchMonkey
• SOAP
• SPARQL
• Thomson Reuters
• TripIt
• Twine
• W3C
• Yahoo!

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 24 March, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. We discuss Nigel’s background in Artificial Intelligence, and the appeal of the Semantic Web, before turning to explore the introduction of Linked Data to an enterprise audience and the multidisciplinary focus required to carry the Web forward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)
• Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project
• Cambridge Consultants
• DBpedia
• DSpace
• Egg
• Epistemics
• ePrints
• FirstDirect
• Garlik
• Wendy Hall, and our recent podcast
• Mike Harris
• Tom Ilube
• Linked Data
• Mosaic
• QDOS
• Scientific American, and its 2001 Semantic Web article
• SPARQL
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham
• University of Southampton
• VoCamp
• Web Science Research Initiative

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 10 March, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and a founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative.

We discuss the Semantic Web, the notion of Web Science, and opportunities to bring groups outside Computer Science together in considering the changes being wrought by our growing dependence upon the Web.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• MIT
• Mosaic
• Royal Academy of Engineering
• University of Southampton
• Web Science Research Initiative
• World Wide Web Conference, 1994
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

This conversation was recorded on Friday 27 February, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Koven Smith of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. We talk about Koven’s work at the Met, and explore the ways in which the museum is applying Semantic Web techniques to the interpretation of its rich datasets.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• British Museum
• CIDOC CRM
• CIMI
• Getty Research Institute and their thesauri on Art & Architecture, Artist Names and Geography
• Google discussion groups for the MCN Semantic Museum Special Interest Group and ‘semuse’
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• ICOM
• Library of Congress
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum Computer Network (MCN)
• Marco Neumann
• New York Semantic Web Meetup
• Open Calais
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Semantic MediaWiki
• Koven Smith, and his MCN presentation
• Powerset
• Tate

This conversation was recorded on Monday 26 January, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk to Mark Greaves, Director of Knowledge Systems Research at Vulcan. We talk about Mark’s background, Vulcan’s interest in the Semantic Web, and explore the opportunities to build a business on top of semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• AdaptiveBlue
• AIFB
• Paul Allen
• American Geophysical Union Conference
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Boeing
• DAML
• DARPA
• DBpedia
• European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC)
• Evri
• HALO extensions
• IkiWiki
• Alex Iskold
• Large Knowledge Collider (LARKC)
• Linked Open Data
• Microformats
• Ontoprise
• OWL
• Project HALO
• Radar Networks
• RDFa
• Semantic Mediawiki
• Semantic Technology Conference
• SPARQL
• Nova Spivack
• Twine
• Vulcan Capital
• Vulcan, Inc.
• W3C
• Web 3.0
• ZDNet’s Semantic Web blog
• Zemanta

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 2 December, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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In our latest podcast I talk to Brooke Aker, CEO of Expert System in the United States. We talk about Expert System and Brooke’s views on the utility of semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Autonomy
• Cogito Semantic Advertiser
• European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC) panel
• Expert System
• Open Calais
• Semantic Exchange

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 2 October, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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In our latest podcast I talk to Scott Brinker of ion interactive. We discuss the application of semantic technologies to Marketing, and explore Scott’s notion of Semantic Marketing.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Alta Vista
• Scott Brinker’s blog, and his original Semantic Marketing post
• The Cluetrain Manifesto
• Dell
• Digg
• Dublin Core
• ion interactive
• Alex Iskold, his post on ‘Top Down’ and ‘Bottom Up,’ and my response
• LinkedIn
• MIT
• Procter and Gamble
• Salesforce
• StumbleUpon
• W3C
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey
• Yelp

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 2 October, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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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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