Talis and Medialab Solutions, creators of the AquaBrowser application, are delighted to announce a new platform partnership agreement.

Both Talis and Medialab have been driving technical and business innovation to help libraries expose their data silos, to easily integrate disparate systems and deliver next generation solutions that are rich, engaging, participative and economically attractive. Talis is developing an open software platform and Medialab has introduced AquaBrowser Online which is one of the first ‘software as a service’ applications to be available to the global library market. The agreement enables Medialab to take advantage of the platform’s APIs to enable any library that contributes its catalogue to the Talis Platform to take advantage of the AquaBrowser Online service.

Ian Davis, Platform Programme Manager, will be presenting on ways to embed RDF metadata into web pages at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam. With the aid of practical examples Ian will explain the advantages of visible metadata and demonstrate how websites can be enriched for both humans and computers using existing technologies.

XTech 2006 is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. XTech brings together the worlds of web development, open source, semantic web and web standards. Ian's presentation is part of the Open Data conference track which aims to cover the possibilities, problems and practicalities of a web of open data. Join us at 9am on Friday 19th May in the St. John 2 conference room. Find out more at http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/20