Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a pretty important person when it comes to the 21st century. He pretty much invented the World Wide Web, and currently leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
He’s also a big proponent of linked data — a concept that he says differs somewhat from open data.
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In my latest podcast I talk with Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. We discuss Nigel’s background in Artificial Intelligence, and the appeal of the Semantic Web, before turning to explore the introduction of Linked Data to an enterprise audience and the multidisciplinary focus required to carry the Web forward.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
* Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)
* Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project
* Cambridge Consultants
* DBpedia
* DSpace
* Egg
* Epistemics
* ePrints
* FirstDirect
* Garlik
* Wendy Hall, and our recent podcast
* Mike Harris
* Tom Ilube
* Linked Data
* Mosaic
* QDOS
* Scientific American, and its 2001 Semantic Web article
* SPARQL
* University of Edinburgh
* University of Nottingham
* University of Southampton
* VoCamp
* Web Science Research Initiative
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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.
From http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2010/3090466.htm After a long campaign dating back to 2006, the UK government has released once classified data, changing the previous secrecy code purveying over government work and data sets. Naomi Fowler reports on what’s changed since the once secret data has been released. So is publishing data the new default position for government in the UK? Proponents argue releasing data allows new enterprises to emerge and site satellite navigation is a prime example.
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