In my latest podcast I talk with Tom Gruber, CTO and co-founder of Siri.

We discuss Siri, and explore the whole notion of the ‘Virtual Personal Assistant,’ of which Siri is one.

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 10 June, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Stephanie Lemieux, a Senior Consultant at Earley & Associates.

We discuss the role of taxonomy and folksonomy in the Enterprise, and consider some of Stephanie’s ideas with respect to the value of a hybrid approach enabled by semantic technologies.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Ann Arbor District Library
• Connectbeam
• Gartner Hype Cycle
• How Buildings Learn
• Hybrid Approaches to Taxonomy & Folksonomy; Stephanie’s paper at the Semantic Technology Conference
• IBM Dogear
• Linked Data
• Meaning Of A Tag (MOAT) project
• Newsgator
• Sharepoint
• WordNet
• ZigTag

This conversation was recorded on Friday 29 May, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Erik Nemeth, a Senior Data Specialist at the Getty Research Institute.

We discuss Erik’s ideas on the ways in which discipline-specific databases need to evolve to remain competitive in the discovery of scholarly literature.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Erik’s paper abstract at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference
• Getty Research Institute
• Google Scholar
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 26 May, 2009.

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