In July’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by two guests to discuss developments in the display and navigation of Semantic Web data.

With so much effort being devoted to the back-office manipulation and storage of semantic data, it is all too easy to forget the opportunities - and challenges - posed in inviting mainstream users to ‘browse the graph’ of semantic data. With expert contributions from MIT’s David Karger and the DBpedia team’s Christian Becker, the Gang sets about ensuring that the Interface is not forgotten.

Gang regular Daniel Lewis was unavailable for this call, and OpenLink’s Ted Thibodeau participated on his behalf.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Cambridge Semantics
• DBpedia
• DBpedia mobile
• Exhibit
• Lee Feigenbaum
• Fresnel
• Haystack
• Marbles
• Sean Martin
• Meaning Of A Tag (MOAT)
• Eric Miller’s Semantic Technology Conference Keynote
• Minority Report
• OpenDoc
• OpenLink Data Explorer
• Potluck
• Revyu
• Simile
• Sindice

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 17 July, 2008.

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In June’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members discuss their impressions of two recent conferences that set out to explore semantic technologies in the context of business applications.

The Semantic Technology Conference was held in San Jose in May 2008, and the Linked Data Planet Conference in New York City in June, finishing shortly before this show was recorded.

At around 28 minutes into the call, discussion turns to the environmental impact and other costs associated with events like these, and the Gang talk about where the value in these events really lies.

The call closes with discussion of news from Hakia, which had just announced the imminent availability of a new API.

Gang regular Tom Heath was unavailable for this call, and Talis CTO Ian Davis participated on his behalf.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Build Your Own Semantic Search Engine With Hakia’s APIs on TechCrunch
• Hakia
• Linked Data Planet, New York City
• Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose

This conversation was recorded on Friday 20 June, 2008.

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In May’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by special guest Barney Pell from Powerset. We talk about Powerset’s unveiling of their public beta earlier this week, hearing Barney’s thoughts on the process, press coverage, and the reactions of real users.

The Gang also discuss their reactions to the launch of Yahoo! SearchMonkey, and look ahead to the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.

 

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Alexa web search index
• Dan Farber on rumours that Microsoft might acquire Powerset
• Hakia
• Peter Mika talks about SearchMonkey
• Powerset
• Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey and Developer Challenge

This conversation was recorded on Thursday 15 May, 2008.

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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.

 

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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. 

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