September 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss Government data and data.gov

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 Architecture Conference
• EPA
• Gapminder, and my podcast with Hans Rosling
• Government 2.0 Summit
• GreenRiver
• Jim Hendler and Li Ding talk about converting Data.gov data to RDF
• Intellidimension
• Many Eyes
• Mediawiki
• MindTouch
• Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), and my podcast with John Sheridan
• RDB2RDF Working Group
• Salesforce, and my podcast with Adam Gross
• Semantic Technology Conference, and the Semantic Web Gang episode recorded on stage there
• Simile
• Sourceforge
• SPARQL
• Sunlight Foundation, and my podcast with David James
• Swivel
• This We Know
• George Thomas’ conference presentation (PDF), referred to by Brand Niemann
• Timetric
• TopQuadrant, and my podcast with Dean Allemang
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) e-Government Interest Group

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 17 September, 2009.