In my latest podcast I talk with Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. We discuss Nigel’s background in Artificial Intelligence, and the appeal of the Semantic Web, before turning to explore the introduction of Linked Data to an enterprise audience and the multidisciplinary focus required to carry the Web forward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)
• Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project
• Cambridge Consultants
• DBpedia
• DSpace
• Egg
• Epistemics
• ePrints
• FirstDirect
• Garlik
• Wendy Hall, and our recent podcast
• Mike Harris
• Tom Ilube
• Linked Data
• Mosaic
• QDOS
• Scientific American, and its 2001 Semantic Web article
• SPARQL
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham
• University of Southampton
• VoCamp
• Web Science Research Initiative

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 10 March, 2009.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and a founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative.

We discuss the Semantic Web, the notion of Web Science, and opportunities to bring groups outside Computer Science together in considering the changes being wrought by our growing dependence upon the Web.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• MIT
• Mosaic
• Royal Academy of Engineering
• University of Southampton
• Web Science Research Initiative
• World Wide Web Conference, 1994
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

This conversation was recorded on Friday 27 February, 2009.

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