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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In October’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, a full complement of regulars is joined by Radar Networks‘ CEO Nova Spivack and Chief Architect Jim Wissner in a discussion of Twine.

Unveiled at the Web 2.0 Summit in November 2007 and released in beta earlier this year, version 1.0 of Twine was opened to the world toward the end of October, and widely reported (see my coverage on ZDNet here, for example.)

In this discussion we touch upon the purpose of Twine, review the first few days of live operation, and then focus upon the team’s plans for the future.

When originally announced, Twine was closely associated with the Semantic Web, although the company’s current marketing is less quick to make that link. In conversation we discover more about priorities for the 1.0 release and dig into some of the ways in which semantic technologies will play an increasingly important role moving forward.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Calais
• compete.com
• Freebase
• Glue
• ISWC
• Metaweb
• Movable Type
• OWL
• Powerset
• Quantum Computer
• Radar Networks
• RDF
• ReadWriteWeb
• Semantic Web Challenge
• SIOC
• Siri
• SPARQL
• Twine
• Web 3.0 Conference

This conversation was recorded on Friday 31 October, 2008.

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