April 2008: The Semantic Web Gang discuss a Wikipedia for Data
In April’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by special guest Georgi Kobilarov from the Free University of Berlin. We discuss Bret Taylor’s notion of a ‘Wikipedia for Data,’ and look at the role that semantic technologies should play in connecting diverse pieces of data together within and between organisations.
Recorded just before the recent World Wide Web Conference in Beijing, the discussion also explores the possibility of a disconnect between academic and commercial conference-goers, asks whether or not this gap is real and (if real) a problem.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- BBC
- BBC Programme Guide
- DBpedia
- European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife
- Dan Farber, ‘Open-sourcing factual data, Wikipedia style‘
- Freebase
- GeoNames
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Karlsruhe
- Linked Data Planet conference, New York City
- Linked Data on the Web workshop, WWW2008
- Linking Open Data project
- Musicbrainz
- Powerset
- ReadWriteWeb blog post on ‘Where to find Open Data on the Web‘
- Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose
- Tabulator
- Bret Taylor, ‘We need a Wikipedia for Data‘
- United States Census data
- WWW2008 Conference, Beijing
- ZDNet blog post on ‘A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea‘
This conversation was recorded on Thursday 17 April, 2008.
