David Provost talks with Talis about his report of a Semantic Web industry ‘On the Cusp’
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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