Paul Miller

Last year, I published a draft version of the Linked Data Horizon Scan that I had been commissioned to write for the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
The final version of that report is available today, both in commentable form via JISC’s JISCPress tool and for download as a PDF.
JISC’s associated call to fund Linked [...]

I recorded my latest Semantic Web-ish podcast last week, talking with Martin Hepp in Germany and Jamie Taylor in California. Our topic was GoodRelations, an ontology/vocabulary designed to enhance the clarity of descriptions of businesses and their products on the Web. As the GoodRelations site describes,
“GoodRelations is a language that can be used to describe very precisely [...]

 

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Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes [...]

I spoke with Will Hunsinger, CEO of Evri, yesterday and the result has just been released as a podcast.
Backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Seattle-based Evri is using semantic technologies to
“change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web.”
Via the site at evri.com, users are able to explore news-like topics of interest. [...]

 

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One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) here in the UK.
Like the BBC, the UK Government and others, they’re interested in the opportunities created by adoption of Linked Data, and will be issuing a call to fund some projects in the space early next year.
As [...]

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