Jon Udell Interviews Richard Wallis
In this second part of a pair of interviews Richard Wallis, Talis Technology Evangelist, is interviewed by Microsoft Evangelist Jon Udell. Jon, author, information architect, software developer, new media innovator, and Internet commentator, produces the Interviews with Innovators series of podcasts on IT Conversations.
This series of two Talking with Talis conversations is the result of a novel call between Jon and Richard in which they interviewed each other.
In this second episode, Jon interviews Richard about Talis, the Talis Platform, the philosophy behind it.
Richard Wallis is a technology evangelist for Talis, a UK-based provider of library systems which has chosen to base its next-generation platform on semantic web technologies. The company doesn’t talk about its mission in those terms, though. In a white paper, it describes the mission of the new platform as: “Harnessing mass collaboration on a global scale.” As Richard Wallis explains:
“The people who are building real applications, and deriving real benefit, don’t give two hoots about RDF and triple stores. They just want the effects.”
The IT Conversations edit of this conversation is published on their site, in a series of Conversations with Innovators - well worth a listen or two.
In the first episode, in which Richard interviews Jon about his interest in the world of libraries and the LibraryLookup Project. We go on to discuss the place of libraries and librarians with the increasingly interconnected mass publishing environment.
This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Friday 7th December 2007, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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