February 2009: The Semantic Web Gang
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.











February 25th, 2009 at 1:40 am
A few FYIs re. comments in this podcast.
1. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/rdf/http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529529/%23this – From O’Reilly meshed with DBpedia “on the fly”
2. http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets – Re. how to do the “Lazy Linked Data Web” thing re. data sets that need assistance re. Linked Data generation and publishing.
Kingsley
March 16th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I really enjoy your podcasts. I would love to hear you revisit semantic view technology, like in the Fresnel episode (July)… specifically something like the Nepomuk or other semantic desktop ideas. Keep up the great work