Monthly Archives: March 2009

Tom Ilube Explains the Semantic Web at Davos

Posted on 4 March 2009 by

A great presentation by Tom Ilube, explaining the Semantic Web at the Davos economic forum this year. Succinct, articulate and pitched at just the right level. http://www.youtube.com/v/k_zoEeWOBuo&hl=en&fs=1

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Why Open Data Is More Important than Open Source

Posted on 4 March 2009 by

Last week I delivered the keynote for the final day of code4lib 2009. This was a particular honour because, unlike many conferences, the keynote speakers are proposed and voted on by the code4lib community. So, rather than keynote speakers being … Continue reading →

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The Semantic Web Acid Test

Posted on 2 March 2009 by

Tom Heath writes a cracking post on the current attempts by a few people to brand web applications that happen to perform text analysis as “Semantic Web”. For me, this nails it: I certainly notice plenty of unjustified attempts at … Continue reading →

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