Listen to conversations with thought-leaders at the interface between Web 2.0, Libraries, and the Semantic Web...

Kingsley Idehen talks about OpenLink Software, Linked Data and the Semantic Web

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In our latest podcast I talk with Kingsley Idehen, President and CEO of OpenLink Software. We discuss OpenLink's approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to a broader discussion of Linked Data; a movement with which Kingsley has been closely involved.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 13 May, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. Thanks are due to Andrew Peterson for his advice on editing the audio.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Posted by Paul Miller at 15:46 on 15 May 2008

JISC & SCONUL Talk with Talis about Library Management System Study

Rachel Bruce of JISC and Anne Bell of SCONUL join me in the latest Talking with Talis podcast to discuss the recently published JISC & SCONUL Library Management Systems Study - An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK higher education.

We discuss the report, the reasons for commissioning it, how it will inform the on going debate about the future of academic libraries, and how libraries could use it.

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During the conversation we reference the following resorces:

This conversation was recorded on Friday 9th May  and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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Posted by Richard Wallis at 14:33 on 12 May 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Peter Mika talks about SearchMonkey and the Semantic Technology Conference

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In our latest podcast I talk with Peter Mika of Yahoo! Research. Peter is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of his presentation as well as learning more about Yahoo! bringing semantic technologies to the mainstream with SearchMonkey.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 8 May, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. Thanks are due to Andrew Peterson for his advice on editing the audio.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Posted by Paul Miller at 13:22 on 8 May 2008

Christine Connors talks about semantic technologies at Dow Jones

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In our latest podcast I talk with Christine Connors, Global Director, Semantic Technology Solutions at Dow Jones. Christine is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of her presentation as well as discussing Dow Jones' wider approach to the adoption of semantic technologies.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 18 April, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. Thanks are due to Andrew Peterson for his advice on editing the audio.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

Posted by Paul Miller at 16:49 on 1 May 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Talis talks with the New Media Consortium about Horizon Report 2008

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In our latest podcast I talk with Larry Johnson, Alan Levine and Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium. We discuss the 2008 edition of their Horizon Report, exploring both their methods and the wide-ranging implications for Higher Education of their findings.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 26 March, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 21:38 on 31 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Fiona Bradley Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web and Libraries

fbradleyThe guest for this Talking with Talis Podcast is Fiona Bradley, Australian Librarian working for IFLA in the Netherlands.

Fiona Launched the blog Semantic Library, to help her find out more about the Semantic Web.  We discuss what she has discovered from the blog and the relevance of the Semantic Web to libraries.

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During the conversation we mention:

This conversation was conducted as a Skype call on Wednesday 12th March 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 09:34 on 26 March 2008

Introducing the Semantic Web Gang

Today we're launching a further series of podcasts to add to the range currently available to you. This new Semantic Web Gang will be a regular monthly show, tapping into insights on the news of the moment from some of those at the forefront in bringing the Semantic Web vision to reality.

Gang members for the first show were;

We shall be adding to the Gang in the coming months, as well as introducing the occasional special guest from time to time.

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See this post on ZDNet's blog, The Semantic Web, for more discussion.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted on 20 March 2008.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 21:58 on 25 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Jim Hendler talks about the Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence

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In our latest podcast I talk with Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. We discuss Jim's early experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, before digging into some of his observations on competing interpretations of the Semantic Web and exploring the relevance of Semantic Web ideas to users of today's Web 2.0 applications.

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See this post on ZDNet's blog, The Semantic Web, for more discussion.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 14 March, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 09:31 on 20 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Eric Miller talks about Zepheira and semantically enabling systems for the Semantic Technology conference

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In our latest podcast I talk with Eric Miller, President of Zepheira. In this follow-up to our original podcast last year, we discuss a project Zepheira has been undertaking to simplify conference management and enrich the delegate experience at this year's Semantic Technology conference. The systems they have developed demonstrate some of the ways in which semantic web technologies can be integrated with existing processes in order to deliver increased value and functionality.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 14 March, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 12:44 on 16 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Norman Gray Talks with Talis about Astronomy and the Semantic Web

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Norman Gray of the European Virtual Observatory's Technology Centre (Euro-VOTech). We talk about Astronomy, and some of the ways in which Semantic Web ideas and methods are beginning to play a role.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using iChat on Monday 10 March, recorded with Ecamm Network's Conference Recorder, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 11:45 on 16 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

A Chat with Richard Cyganiak

Latest recording on technical matters is a chat with Richard Cyganiak, who's currently working on the Sindice Semantic Web search engine, though is probably best known for his leading role in the Linking Open Data project (maintaining the cloud diagram :-)

In the podcast Richard describes various technical details of these projects, and talks about the nature of data on the Web in the wild, as RDF, microformats and increasingly RDFa. He also discusses some of the practical issues in mapping existing databases to the Semantic Web (the kind of techniques Tim Berners-Lee mentioned in his podcast with Paul a few weeks ago).

Richard naturally mentions the principles of Linked Data :

  1. Use URIs as names for things
  2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
  3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.
  4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 18:03 on 13 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

SLIC's Elaine Fulton Talks with Talis

elaine_fulton Elaine Fulton Director, Scottish Library and Information Council/CILIP in Scotland is the subject of this Talking with Talis Podcast.

From library assistant in East Kilbride to Director of SLIC, Elaine has had a long career in and around Public Libraries in Scotland.  For a significant amount of that time she was associated with library systems, which has been a great help in her current position.

We discuss her career; the role of SLIC/CILIP in Scotland; the differences and advantages of working through the Scottish Government; and past and current SLIC projects.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Wednesday 5th March 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 15:35 on 13 March 2008

Barak Pridor Talks about ClearForest, Calais, Reuters and the Semantic Web

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In our latest podcast I talk with ClearForest CEO, Barak Pridor. We discuss the changing business model in Reuters' core markets, and consider ways in which their acquisition of ClearForest in 2007 helps Reuters position for the future. We also consider the technical and business decisions behind Reuters' recent announcement of an open API for the new Calais Web Service, built upon ClearForest's technology.

For more analysis of the conversation, see ZDNet's blog, The Semantic Web.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 21 February, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 15:53 on 11 March 2008 | TrackBack (0)

A Chat with Tom Morris

Today's verbal delight features Semantic Web hacker (and philosopher) Tom Morris, initially talking about using XML to describe real-world things, mentioning the advantages of RDF. He then describes his experiences with the Ruby programming language, and offers thoughts on practical aspects of working in the distributed environment of the Web. Tom tells of ideas he has around using Bluetooth with RDF, before giving his opinion of platforms like Facebook, and related novel aspects of online gaming. He concludes by talking about his recent experience of organizing SemanticCamp London, and encouraging other people to try the BarCamp approach to conferences.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Posted by Paul Miller at 12:55 on 8 March 2008 | TrackBack (1)

Mark Leggott Talks with Talis

Leggott, Mark (W) For this Talking with Talis podcast I am joined by Mark Leggott from the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.

Mark an avid promoter of Open Source solutions, talks about the need for an open shared knowledgebase for journals, before moving on to describe his work at UPEI.

With the aid of Open Source software such as Drupal and Fedora, Mark has enabled the delivery of a holistic solution to learning, administration and research across the University.

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Resources referenced in the conversation:

This conversation was conducted as a Skype call on Tuesday 5th March 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 23:24 on 5 March 2008

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks about the Semantic Web

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In our latest podcast interview I talk with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. We discuss the Semantic Web's readiness for mainstream adoption, and explore a wide range of issues from Linked Data to the writing of new books for developers.

For further discussion of the interview's content, see this post on ZDNet's latest blog, The Semantic Web.

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Download MP3 [63 mins, 30Mb]. Read transcript

During the conversation, we refer to numerous resources. These are linked from the transcript, and reproduced below;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 7 February, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, enhanced with The Levelator and then edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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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Posted by Paul Miller at 07:00 on 27 February 2008 | TrackBack (1)

A Chat with Uldis Bojars

On Friday I had the pleasure of a chat with Uldis Bojars (also known as CaptSolo), who's recently being developing social network-oriented applications using Semantic Web technologies. His main area of work over the past few years has been the SIOC project (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities), and in the podcast he discusses how the SIOC project anticipated (and fulfils many of the requirements of) the DataPortability initiative. As you can see from the list of links below, there's a lot happening in this space.

Uldis used two phrases I don't recall hearing before, but expect to hear a lot more in future. When discussing the recently updated Semantic Radar Firefox plugin he described how it passes data along the "Semantic Web food chain", and then regarding SIOC Explorer, mining social networks based on "object-centered sociality" (this is described in the paper). Good stuff.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Posted by Paul Miller at 13:06 on 25 February 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Brad Lajeunesse Talks with Talis about Evergreen

Brad Lajeunesse This Talking with Talis podcast is with Brad Lajeunesse, President of Equinox Software.  Equinox was founded by the software team that developed Evergreen, the open source integrated library system (ILS).

We talk about the origins and development of Evergreen, and the setting up of Equinox.  We then go on to discuss some of the issues associated with Open Source Library Systems in general.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Wednesday 13th February 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

Posted by Richard Wallis at 15:37 on 22 February 2008

Candy Zemon Talks with Talis About NCIP

Candy Zemon Joining me for this Talking with Talis podcast show is Candy Zemon.   Candy from Polaris Library Systems is Chair of the NCIP Implementers Group

In the show we discuss NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) which was first published in 2002.  We discuss the standard, its evolution, why it has not been as broadly adopted as some have hoped, and its future in the Library System Environment.

We then move on to talk about the wider library standards process and how it is evolving, changing and new initiatives, such as the DLF ILS and Discovery Systems group.

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Posted by Richard Wallis at 15:58 on 14 February 2008

Open Source Evangelist Nicole Engard Talks with Talis

Nicole_Engard 2007 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, Nicole C. Engard known for her work at Jenkins Law Library and more recently Princeton Theological Seminary Library, is on the move in to a new and interesting role.

Nicole is joining LibLime, the library Open Source Software company behind Koha, as their Open Source Evangelist. 

In this Talking with Talis show, I talk with Nicole about her career so far, the challenge of her new role, and her view of the library systems landscape.

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Note: There is a loss of quality towards the end of this podcast.  Unfortunately is was not possible to correct this during post production.  I hope it does not detract too much from your enjoyment.

This conversation was conducted as a Skype call on Monday 21st January 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 11:24 on 4 February 2008 | Comments (3)

A Chat with Benjamin Nowack

Just before the weekend I (Danny Ayers) had the pleasure of a telephone chat with Benjamin Nowack, in which he described his views on rapid Semantic Web development in PHP, providing a Unique Selling Proposition to web design agencies and his ARC RDF Classes for PHP among a few other things - see the list below. Particularly timely was his reference to using an ARC-based scutter (RDF crawler) with WordPress for gathering blog-commentator's social graphs.

Here's the recording (mp3, 37 minutes, 34MB).

Notes:

Posted by Paul Miller at 17:01 on 3 February 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Inigo Surguy Talks with Talis about 67 Bricks and the Semantic Web

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Inigo Surguy of 67 Bricks. We discuss Inigo's experience consulting for companies in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, and consider the extent to which his clients know that they require a 'semantic web' solution to their problems.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 7 December, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 20:29 on 31 January 2008 | TrackBack (0)

Polaris Library System CEO, Bill Schickling Talks with Talis

BillShickling In this Talking with Talis episode I am in conversation with President and CEO of Polaris Library Systems, Bill Schickling.

Polaris scored well in the recent International Survey of Library Automation, Perceptions 2007, published in Library Technology Guides by Marshall Breeding.  The survey was the subject of a previous Talking with Talis podcast with Marshall Breeding.

As well as discussing what may lie behind Polaris' good showing in the survey, we open out the conversation to Bill's view of the ILS sector in general.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Monday 28th January 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 13:32 on 29 January 2008

Terry Reese shares his Top Tech Trends on Talking with Talis

terry_reese Oregon State University's Terry Reese could not easily  get in to the LITA Top Tech Trends session at ALA Midwinter, so he drafted his own non-LITA Top Tech Trends and posted them on his blog Terry's Worklog.

Terry joins us on this Talking with Talis podcast to describe and expand upon his five top tech trends:

  1. Ultra-light and small PCs
  2. Branding outside services as our own
  3. Collections as services will change the way libraries do collection development
  4. Increased move to outside library IT and increased love for hosted services
  5. OCLC will continue to down the path to becoming just another vendor

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Sites referenced in the conversation:

This conversation was conducted as a Skype call on Thursday 17th January 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 17:01 on 24 January 2008

Andreas Harth Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web Search Engine and SIOC

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Andreas Harth of DERI in Galway, Ireland. We talk about Andreas' work on the Semantic Web Search Engine ('swizzy'), before discussing DERI's involvement with the evolving SIOC project.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Monday 10 December, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 14:51 on 24 January 2008 | TrackBack (2)

CILIP Chief Executive Bob McKee Talks With Talis

Bob McKee In this Talking with Talis podcast episode I am in conversation with Bob McKee, Chief Executive of CILIP - the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK.

Bob, a librarian with a long career in public libraries and local government, shares his interesting and entertaining views and opinions about the challenges faced by his organisation and the professionals it supports.

He also discusses his experience of blogging From the Chief Executive's Desk.

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This conversation was recorded on Friday 18th January 2008, on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 11:20 on 23 January 2008

Perceptions 2007 - Marshall Breeding Talks with Talis about an International Survey of Library Automation

The subject of this Talking with Talis podcast is Marshall Breeding, of Vanderbilt University. He is well known in the world of Library automation for his conference presentations, writings and, the Library Technology Guides site.

In the latter part of 2007 he conducted a survey of the opinions of libraries, which was published a few days ago.

We discuss the the survey, which attracted some 1,700 responses from 47 countries, the results and what they may be telling us about the current state of library automation.

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This conversation was conducted as a SkypeOut call on Thursday 17th January 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
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Posted by Richard Wallis at 13:38 on 21 January 2008

Mathieu d'Aquin Talks with Talis about Networked Ontologies and the Semantic Web

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Mathieu d'Aquin, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). We talk about Mathieu's work, and explore the relevance of networked ontologies to the increasingly important subject of Semantic Web search.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Friday 7 December, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 15:37 on 17 January 2008 | TrackBack (6)

Eyal Oren Talks with Talis about Sindice and tagging on the Semantic Web

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Eyal Oren, who has just completed his Ph.D at the Galway (Ireland) site of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). We talk about activity at DERI, touching upon their Sindice semantic web index, their work on SIOC, and the potential of data linked across the open web. We conclude by taking an early look at Eyal's new job at VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 5 December, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 18:11 on 9 January 2008 | TrackBack (4)