In November’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang, regular Gang members are joined by Eqentia CEO William Mougayar. The discussion touches on a range of issues, including the potential importance of the DBpedia Live project in increasing third party reliance upon the Linked Data within DBpedia . Bookmark It...
In October’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang, regular Gang members discuss the relationship between the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Semantic Web. Bookmark It...
In September’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang we are joined by Brand Niemann of the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a discussion of efforts to apply semantic technologies to Government data in the USA and elsewhere. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; apps.gov , and Vivek Kundra’s post on the White House blog Greg Boutin’s blog post about Twine Cambridge Semantics , and my podcast with Sean Martin DARPA Dapper data.gov DBpedia Enterprise Archi...
In July’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang we take this week’s release of the 4store RDF triple store as a starting point, and explore the ways in which core technologies such as the triple store are becoming increasingly commoditised. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; 4store (and my podcast with the team) Billion Triples Challenge Garlik Kingsley Idehen Jena Linked Data OpenLink RDF Sesame SPARQL Talis Connected Commons Talis Platform Twitter’s document theft Virtuos...
June’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang was recorded on-stage during the closing session of this year’s Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. Regular Gang members are joined by conference organiser, Tony Shaw, and an audience in looking back at the issues and trends that emerged during the event. As well as recording sound the conference team also captured video from the session, which is available for watching on their web site . So if you ever wanted to know what the Gang look like, this...
In the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang, we discuss the recent launch of Wolfram Alpha and consider the implications of Google’s support for RDFa. June’s episode of the Semantic Web Gang comes live from the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. If you’re there, why not come along and take part in the show ? During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; data-vocabulary.org Ian Davis’ blog post on Google’s RDFa Dublin Core GRDDL Hakia Mathematica OWL Powerset RDF RDFa ...
In the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang, Yahoo!’s Peter Mika reports from VoCamp on the Spanish island of Ibiza to spark a wide-ranging discussion on the role of vocabularies and ontologies in the Semantic Web. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; European Semantic Web Conference , Heraklion (ESWC) Freebase Glue Linked Data Phase2 Technology Semantic Technology Conference , San Jose Semantic Web Meetup VoCamp Web 3.0 , New York City WWW2009 , Madrid This conversat...
In the latest episode of the Semantic Web Gang regular members take a broad look at the news of the moment, discussing growing enterprise interest in ‘Linked Data’ and O’Reilly’s move to share RDF describing their book catalogue. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Amazon Public Data Sets Calais (and ZDNet coverage of the release) DBpedia From e-Gov to Connected Governance event Kevin Kelly’s Next 5,000 Days of the Web at TED ‘ Library of Congress embraces Linked Data m...
In the first episode of 2009, we welcome Leigh Dodds , Benjamin Nowack and Peter Mika as Gang regulars, and talk with Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters about this week’s release of version 4.0 of the Open Calais service. Towards the end of the call, Gang members talk about Marshall Kirkpatrick’s recent Read/Write Web report asking if Google were adopting a more structured and semantic approach to the delivery of query answers. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Calais (and ...
In the November/December edition of the Semantic Web Gang we discuss the recent launch of Glue from AdaptiveBlue, and look back at the Semantic Web highlights of 2008. AdaptiveBlue’s Alex Iskold is a regular member of the Gang, and shares some of the rationale behind the approach adopted with Glue. Listen, too, to hear Gang members’ perspectives on the events, trends and companies that excelled in 2008… and those with work still to do. During the conversation, we refer to the following resources...
