Paul Miller over on our sister blog Nodalities has published a great podcast conversation with the inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Sir Tim Berners-Lee - Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks about the Semantic Web.

This is a really good listen which I can highly recommend.  Ranging from the Semantic Web’s readiness for mainstream adoption, to Linked Data.  If you prefer a read instead of a listen, you will find a link to Read a Transcript next to the player on the post.

For a more expansive discussion of the references Sir Tim makes I recommend Paul’s more expansive post over on on ZDNet’s latest blog, The Semantic Web.

We all recognise that libraries and their evolution depend on Tim’s invention, the Web.  What is not as well recognised is that evolution is going to depend on the Semantic Web, as the data we create, curate, and share, starts to take its rightful place in a global Web of Data.

It is no accident that initiatives like RDA, and their work with Dublin Core, use the Semantic Web data language RDF at the heart.

So as well as being a good listen, the contents of this podcast are very relevant to the future of library technology.

Photograph of Sir Tim Berners-Lee taken by my colleague Rob Styles, during Tim’s keynote presentation at the WWW2007 Conference in Banff, Canada. Used with permission.

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