The Cloud of Data
As part of a workshop at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), former colleague Leigh Dodds prepared an interesting diagram on the ways in which resources comprising the Linked Data Cloud are currently licensed.
For various reasons, I was unable to make it to Virginia for the event, but a scan through the presentations from [...]
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My latest podcast is with John Wilbanks, the VP at Creative Commons with responsibility for their Science Commons project.
John has a varied background that includes founding a bio-informatics startup, Harvard’s Berkman Center, the World Wide Web Consortium and the US Congress.
In his current role at Science Commons, he is working to [...]
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A short post, sparked by two related items that arrived by Twitter and email almost simultaneously.
Via Twitter, TechnologyReview reports that it’s getting easier to visualise massive data sets without the traditional supercomputer.
Via email, the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announces its contribution of £200,000 to a joint funding call with the United [...]
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It began, as so many things do these days, with an idle tweet.
On 21 November, Amazon Web Services‘ Deepak Singh pointed to a new page describing the company’s ‘Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services.’
Lidija Davis covered the news for ReadWriteWeb two days later and on 4 December Amazon issued its [...]
Paul Miller works at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web, providing the insights that enable you to exploit the next wave as we approach the World Wide Database.
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