The Semantic Web Gang

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.

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.

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.

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

Virtuoso

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 16 July, 2009.

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 is your chance...

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 18 June, 2009.

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

Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose

SPARQL

True Knowledge

VoCamp

VoCamp Sunnyvale

Wolfram Alpha

Yahoo! SearchMonkey

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 21 May, 2009.

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 conversation was recorded on Thursday 16 April, 2009.

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 movement' from semanticweb.com

OpenLink

O'Reilly announcement on RDF

SearchMonkey

TripIt

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 19 February, 2009.

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 ZDNet coverage of the release)

Clearforest

'Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?' by Marshall Kirkpatrick

'Harnessing the Deep Web, Present and Future' [PDF] (as referred to by Leigh Dodds, and further discussed on his blog here)

SearchMonkey

Sindice

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 15 January, 2009.

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;

AB Meta

AdaptiveBlue

Calais

DBpedia

DBpedia mobile

Tom Heath's podcast

Geonames

Giant Global Graph

Glue (and my coverage on ZDNet)

ISWC 2008

Linked Data

Linked Data Planet conference (and coverage of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote)

Peter Mika's podcast interview and appearance on the Semantic Web Gang

Musicbrainz

OWL

paggr

RDF

RDFa

S3 from Amazon

Semantic Web Challenge

SemaPlorer

SimpleDB from Amazon

SPARQL

WWW2008 conference (and coverage of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote)

Yahoo! Searchmonkey

This conversation was recorded on Friday 5 December, 2008.