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 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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