In my latest podcast I talk with John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the UK Government’s Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI). John is also co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium’s e-Government Interest Group, and we discuss both roles in the context of current enthusiasm for making Government data more readily available online.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cabinet Office
• Creative Commons
• Crown Copyright
• Directgov
• Government CIO’s Council
• hmg.gov.uk
• London Gazette
• MySociety
• The National Archives
• Obama’s memorandum on Transparency and Open Government
• Office of Public Sector Information
• OPSI’s Click-Use licenses
• OPSI’s non-transactional license draft
• PerSpectIves blog
• The Power of Information report
• RDF
• RDFa, and my podcast with Mark Birbeck
• SPARQL
• Wiki-Government

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 22 July, 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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