In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Dr Peter Bloodsworth of the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. We discuss his research background, and the evolution of his interests from multi-agent systems toward the use of Semantic Web Ontologies. We conclude by looking at the ways in which this research is being put into practice with the European Health-e-Child project.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Agent Cities
• Connotea
• del.icio.us
• DICOM
• Health-e-Child (and the project partners)
• JADE agent development platform
• UK National Health Service (NHS)
• Oxford Brookes University
• PACS
• University of the West of England (UWE)

This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Monday 26 November, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: Health-e-Child, ontology, Peter Bloodsworth, podcast, Podcasting, Health, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, UWE, Web 3.0

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Daniel Lewis. We discuss some of his ideas about the ‘Social Web’, and the relationship between this and the ideas and technologies of the Semantic Web.

Since recording our conversation, Daniel has left Curverider and is seeking new work.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• APML
• FOAF
• Knowledge Media Institute
• Linking Open Data
• Microformats
• OAuth
• Open Social
• Open Socket in Facebook
• Oxford Brookes University
• Oxford Geek Nights
• Oxfordshire Semantic Web Interest Group
• Revyu.com
• Six Apart‘s Livejournal
• SKOS
• WordPress
• XFN

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 20 November, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: Daniel Lewis, podcast, Podcasting, Social Web, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Asemantics’ CTO, Alberto Reggiori. We talk about the evolving semantic web, and the realities of maintaining a business delivering semantic solutions to enterprises outside the traditional Semantic Web community.

“Alberto Reggiori is co-founder and CTO of Asemantics S.r.l., a company working on cutting-edge Web technologies. He started to work on the Web back in 1995, and now specialises in new media, metadata and web data services. He has been prime developer of RDFStore, a native Semantic Web storage engine started back in 2000; and he is author of a number of open source packages and he participated to W3C standardistion activities related to SPARQL. While at Asemantics, Alberto has been working and consulting for companies like Skype, Joost, and recently for the BBC bringing innovative technologies into the customer Web infrastructures.”

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Asemantics
• Atom
• BBC Date Aggregator project
• A report of Tim Berners-Lee’s WWW2007 keynote
• GRDDL
• Joost
• Linking Open Data Project
• Microformats
• Open Social
• RDF
• Skype
• SPARQL
• Web 2.0

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 20 November, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: Alberto Reggiori, podcast, Podcasting, Asemantics, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Brigham Young Ph.D candidate and active blogger, Yihong Ding. In our wide-ranging conversation, we talk about Yihong’s Ph.D research and explore some of his ideas about ways in which the Web’s evolution toward semantic technologies may be compared to the development of children.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• DERI Innsbruck
• SemanticFocus.com
• Thinking Space, Yihong’s blog
• Ding, Ding, Embley, Shafiq & Hepp, Making the Semantic Web a Reality through Active Semantic Spaces [pdf]

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 11 October, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: podcast, Podcasting, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 3.0, Yihong Ding

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Paul Gearon about RDF databases, his research interests in OWL, and some of his experiences in working with Semantic Web technologies outside the lab.

Paul is closely involved with the ongoing development of the Mulgara Semantic Store, and touches upon issues addressed in an earlier podcast with David Wood of Zepheira.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• ‘Closed World Assumption‘, from Wikipedia
• Google Bigtable
• DAML+OIL Reference Description
• ‘Description Logic‘, from Wikipedia
• Freebase
• Fourth Codex
• Hadoop
• Jena
• School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, Division of Data and Knowledge Engineering Research, University of Queensland
• Google Mapreduce
• Metaweb
• Mulgara
• Google’s Open Source site
• ‘Open World Assumption‘, from Wikipedia
• OWL
• RDFS
• Jamie Taylor Talks with Talis about Metaweb and Freebase
• Topaz
• W3C
• David Wood Talks with Talis about Mulgara and semantic web databases

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 3 August, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: David Wood, Mulgara, Open Source, Paul Gearon, Podcasting, OWL, RDF, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Tucana, W3C, Web 3.0

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Thomas Vander Wal of InfoCloud Solutions about Folksonomies, and some of the ways in which this apparently simple concept is being extended to meet today’s complex requirements.

During our conversation, we look back upon the genesis of the term – which Thomas originally coined – and consider the relationship between emergent folksonomies and more established formal taxonomies of terms.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Connectbeam
• Del.icio.us
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Original ‘Folksonomy‘ definition, reproduced on vanderwal.net
• ‘Folksonomy‘ definition on Wikipedia
• Google Alerts
• InfoCloud Solutions
• Ma.gnolia
• Personal Infocloud
• PubSub (under redevelopment)
• Raw Sugar (although not what it used to be)
• Steve.Museum
• Technorati
• Twitter

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

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: Folksonomy, Podcasting, Thomas Vander Wal, Talis, Talking with Talis

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Tom Heath about his Ph.D research at the Open University‘s Knowledge Media Institute.

During our conversation, we discuss the ways in which people draw upon the expertise of social networks, Revyu.com, the Semantic Web, and the importance of the current cluster of Linked Data projects of which Revyu is one.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon
• dbpedia
• del.icio.us
• Epinions
• Facebook
• FOAF
• GeoNames
• HooNoh
• IMDB
• Institute for Learning & Research Technology (ILRT)
• Knowledge Media Institute
• LinkedIn
• Linking Open Data project
• Livejournal
• Musicbrainz
• myOpera
• OpenGuides
• Open University
• Quotationsbook
• RDF
• RDF Book Mashup
• Revyu.com
• Semantic Web Education & Outreach (SWEO)
• WWW2007 conference

This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Tuesday 12 June, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

The picture of Tom Heath was taken by Gregory Todd Williams, and is shared on Flickr under a Creative Commons License.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: Linked Data, open data, Participation, Podcasting, HooNoh, RDF, Revyu, Semantic Web, Social Networking, SWEO, Talis, Talking with Talis, Tom Heath, Trust, W3C, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, WWW2007

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Amit Kothari of QuotationsBook.com.

During our conversation, we explore some of the background to QuotationsBook and touch upon Amit’s plans for the future. We also address the recent Creative Commons-licensed release of QuotationsBook data in RDF, and investigate some of the risks and opportunities posed by this open approach to data sharing.

Listen Now | Download MP3 [61 mins, 42 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon
• answers.com
• Facebook
• FOAF
• Future of Web Apps 2007
• Iron, by Amit Kothari
• LibraryThing
• Linking Open Data community
• Lulu
• Moo
• Qoop
• QuotationsBook.com
• Shelfari
• Spinvox
• Spreadshirt
• Twitter
• Zoominfo

This conversation was conducted over Skype on Thursday 24 May, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Technorati Tags: Amit Kothari, FOWA07, FOWA2007, FOWALondon07, FOWALondon2007, Linked Data, open data, Podcasting, qb, quotationsbook, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with David Wood of Zepheira. Founder of Semantic Web database company Tucana Technologies Inc., David is more recently a founding member of the Kowari Metastore and Mulgara Semantic Store Open Source Software projects.

During our conversation, David discusses the relationship between these three well known examples of Semantic Web data management, before going on to address some of the opportunities created by building a capability to manipulate massive bodies of Semantic Web data within and between organisations.

Listen Now | Download MP3 [56 mins, 39 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Defence Science & Technology Organisation
• Fedora
• Jena
• Kowari
• Mulgara
• RDF
• Marshall Rose
• mySQL
• Northrop Grumman
• Postgres
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• The Tipping Point
• Topaz Foundation
• Viewpoint Systems
• W3C
• Zepheira
• Zope

This conversation was conducted over Skype on Monday 30 April 2007, recorded with Ecamm Network‘s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited in Garageband.

Technorati Tags: Kowari, Mulgara, open data, Open Source, Podcasting, Tucana, Semantic Web, Talis, Talis Platform, Talking with Talis, Web 3.0, Zepheira

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Jeff Sutherland about SCRUM. Jeff is one of the co-creators of SCRUM and is also the Chief Technology Officer of PatientKeeper.

During our conversation, we discuss the SCRUM process, examining the theory and the history behind it and we explore the benefits of adopting SCRUM in software development.

Listen Now | Download MP3 [28 mins, 20 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following:

• Jeff’s SCRUM blog
• Agile Software Development
• Ken Schwaber
• Scrum Alliance
• Kent Beck
• Extreme Programming
• Yahoo!
• Google AdWords

This conversation was conducted by telephone on Friday 13th April 2007 and edited in Audacity.

Technorati Tags: Talis, SCRUM, Aglie, Extreme Programming,