It was announced today that Talis Group Ltd has completed the sale of its Library division (“Talis Information Ltd”) to Capita Group plc. This development raises some interesting opportunities for Talis Research, which remains within the Talis Group subsidiary “Talis Systems Ltd”.

The other teams that remain with Talis include the Platform team, our Linked Data consultancy, the education business responsible for Talis Aspire, and the new venture “Kasabi”. Each of these businesses are predicated on the Linked Data and Semantic Web vision, where the Talis Research team have particular expertise.

Within the Research team we’re particularly excited about the opportunity to work even more closely with these talented teams, to help drive the pace of innovation within Talis Group, and further strengthen our contribution to the Linked Data and Semantic Web field.

In this research seminar recorded at Talis in July 2010, Spyros Kotoulas gives an introduction to the topic of Inferencing over Web Data. The talk is a great introduction for those new to the reasoning in a Semantic Web context.

(See this video on Vimeo for alternative media players.)

Spyros is a post-doctoral researcher In the Knowledge representation and Reasoning group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, led by Frank van Harmelen. His research interests include large-scale semantic web reasoning, privacy in distributed and peer-to-peer systems, highly distributed applications and large-scale resource discovery. He currently works on the LARKC project.

Links:

• Spyros Kotoulas’s Home Page