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In this conversation we explore the impact of web and social technologies and their impact, challenge, and opportunity when applied to the enterprise.

Jay also explains how Best Buy are publishing the machine-readable data out on the public web and touches on the next steps Best Buy will be taking. He also calls on the Semantic Web community to take an active role in promoting work like this by voting for his panel at South by Southwest, which you can see here.

Jay Myers is a Lead Web Development Engineer for Best Buy, and is an active supporter of the GoodRelations vocabulary for ecommerce, utilizing it for modeling consumer products, stores, and services in both RDF/XML and RDFa. For more information, you can read his blog or catch him on Twitter.

The four year project started in January 2009 to provide an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems.  The concept behind it being, that once developed, the stack can be bolted-on to many different CMS products to add semantic, and semantic web, capabilities.  Even though the project is open source, and the obvious use of it is with open source CMS tools, it’s use could be of equal value to commercial products.

Their target is engage with 40 small to medium organisations for whom developing such capability would not be possible with their limited resources.  They are already well on the way, with many joining in via the project Web site and participating at the first early adopters workshop in Salzburg in June.

One of the major applications of these raw data, especially anything containing geographical information, is the ability to visualise them. One of the first things the Guardian produced from the leaked data was an interactive map of Improvised Explosive Device incedents affecting troops and civilians.

The opening up of the data behind such applications could prove to be a powerful catalyst for wider visualisation and applications built around the presence of authoritative journalistic facts. Putting the raw data in the hands of the web’s hackers has been a bold move from the Guardian, and I hope to see new and better stories come from the tools made possible by a supply of useful information.

We talk about his role over the years; the emergence data.gov.uk as part of the previous administration’s Making Public Data Public initiative; and the subtle change of emphasis accompanying the new administrations name change to the Transparency Programme.

Finally we move on to the role of the newly formed Public Sector Transparency Board of which he is a member.

The Open Graph Protocol page has information about the protocol itself. Facebook’s f8 developers’ conference site also has links with more information for developers.

I spoke with LSE Research Fellow Dr. Prodromos (Pro) Tsiavos, who is researching open licensing, data sharing and publishing data in the public sector and who is also a Legal Project Lead for Creative Commons England and Wales. Pro’s main focus has been with the Cultural commons, and we discussed culture-shifts in science, and how the expectation that data are shared and licensed changes the way research may be done in future.

Richard walks us through the data.gov.uk site, explaining how data is stored, an accessed.  He explains the [very open] licensing conditions surrounding the data.   It has been well publicised that they have made a commitment to delivering an increasing proportion of that data as Linked Data.  Richard explains the reasoning and benefits of doing that in addition to publishing it in it’s initial raw form.

We get a sneak preview of a new Linked Data API, which will soon provide a simple way to query  data in that form, without the need to understand the SPARQL query language.