A story about the Semantic Web Transcript, interview bios, and other info on kateray.net Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein Kate Ray is a recently-graduated NYU journalism/psychology student, currently working on kommons.com
This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intended to provide an overview of current developments with respect to Linked Data, and to make a series of recommendations to JISC and the wider community.
Keynote presentation at the North Atlantic Health Science Library meeting, October 26, 2009.
An introduction to semantic web technologies and their relationship to libraries and bibliographic data.
The notion of allowing access to your website content and data via API's and other machine readable means is well embedded in geek circles.
This presentation aims to look at the non-technical reasons why these approaches are a good idea, arguing that it is time for Machine Readable Data (MRD) approaches to be better communicated to content owners, budget holders and other non-technical stakeholders.
Keynote at Online Information 2009, delivered on 3rd December. I discuss hype and reality and focus on linked data as the dominant design for publishing data on the web.
ISWC2009 Tutorial on Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web http://www.opendatacommons.org/events/iswc-2009-legal-social-sharing-data-web/
This paper describes the crisis of identity facing the World Wide Web and, in particular, the RDF community. It shows how that crisis is rooted in a lack of clarity about the nature of "resources" and how concepts developed during the XML Topic Maps effort can provide a solution that works not only for Topic Maps, but also for RDF and semantic web technologies in general.