In our latest podcast I talk with Dean Allemang, Chief Scientist at TopQuadrant. We discuss TopQuadrant's approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to discussion of the book that Dean recently wrote with previous podcast subject Jim Hendler

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In our latest podcast I talk with Kingsley Idehen, President and CEO of OpenLink Software. We discuss OpenLink's approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to a broader discussion of Linked Data; a movement with which Kingsley has been closely involved.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Peter Mika of Yahoo! Research. Peter is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of his presentation as well as learning more about Yahoo! bringing semantic technologies to the mainstream with SearchMonkey.

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In our latest podcast I talk with Christine Connors, Global Director, Semantic Technology Solutions at Dow Jones. Christine is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of her presentation as well as discussing Dow Jones' wider approach to the adoption of semantic technologies.

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In our latest podcast Paul Miller talks with Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. They discuss Jim's early experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, before digging into some of his observations on competing interpretations of the Semantic Web and exploring the relevance of Semantic Web ideas to users of today's Web 2.0 applications.

In this podcast Paul Miller talks with Eric Miller, President of Zepheira. In this follow-up to our original podcast last year, we discuss a project Zepheira has been undertaking to simplify conference management and enrich the delegate experience at this year's Semantic Technology Conference. The systems they have developed demonstrate some of the ways in which semantic web technologies can be integrated with existing processes in order to deliver increased value and functionality.

In this Talking with Talis podcast Paul Miller talks with Norman Gray of the European Virtual Observatory's Technology Centre (Euro-VOTech). They talk about Astronomy, and some of the ways in which Semantic Web ideas and methods are beginning to play a role.

Latest recording on technical matters is a chat with Richard Cyganiak, who's currently working on the Sindice Semantic Web search engine, though is probably best known for his leading role in the Linking Open Data project (maintaining the cloud diagram :-)

In the podcast Richard describes various technical details of these projects, and talks about the nature of data on the Web in the wild, as RDF, microformats and increasingly RDFa. He also discusses some of the practical issues in mapping existing databases to the Semantic Web (the kind of techniques Tim Berners-Lee mentioned in his podcast with Paul a few weeks ago).

In this Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with ClearForest CEO, Barak Pridor. They discuss the changing business model in Reuters' core markets, and consider ways in which their acquisition of ClearForest in 2007 helps Reuters position for the future. We also consider the technical and business decisions behind Reuters' recent announcement of an open API for the new Calais Web Service, built upon ClearForest's technology.

For more analysis of the conversation, see the ZDNet's blog, The Semantic Web.

Today's verbal delight features Semantic Web hacker (and philosopher) Tom Morris, initially talking about using XML to describe real-world things, mentioning the advantages of RDF. He then describes his experiences with the Ruby programming language, and offers thoughts on practical aspects of working in the distributed environment of the Web. Tom tells of ideas he has around using Bluetooth with RDF, before giving his opinion of platforms like Facebook, and related novel aspects of online gaming. He concludes by talking about his recent experience of organizing SemanticCamp London, and encouraging other people to try the BarCamp approach to conferences.

In this Talking with Talis podcast Paul Miller talks with Sir Tim Berners-Lee , inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. They discuss the Semantic Web's readiness for mainstream adoption, and explore a wide range of issues from Linked Data to the writing of new books for developers.

On Friday I had the pleasure of a chat with Uldis Bojars (also known as CaptSolo), who's recently being developing social network-oriented applications using Semantic Web technologies. His main area of work over the past few years has been the SIOC project (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities), and in the podcast he discusses how the SIOC project anticipated (and fulfils many of the requirements of) the DataPortability initiative. As you can see from the list of links below, there's a lot happening in this space.

Uldis used two phrases I don't recall hearing before, but expect to hear a lot more in future. When discussing the recently updated Semantic Radar Firefox plugin he described how it passes data along the "Semantic Web food chain", and then regarding SIOC Explorer, mining social networks based on "object-centered sociality" (this is described in the paper). Good stuff.

Just before the weekend I (Danny Ayers) had the pleasure of a telephone chat with Benjamin Nowack, in which he described his views on rapid Semantic Web development in PHP, providing a Unique Selling Proposition to web design agencies and his ARC RDF Classes for PHP among a few other things - see the list below. Particularly timely was his reference to using an ARC-based scutter (RDF crawler) with WordPress for gathering blog-commentator's social graphs.

In the latest Talking with Talis podcast Paul Miller talks with Inigo Surguy of 67 Bricks. They discuss Inigo's experience consulting for companies in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, and consider the extent to which his clients know that they require a 'Semantic Web' solution to their problems.

In this Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Andreas Harth, a Ph.D student at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Galway, Ireland. They talk about Andreas' research, touching upon the Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE) and growing interest in Semantically Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC).

In this Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Mathieu d'Aquin, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). They talk about Mathieu's work, and explore the relevance of networked ontologies to the increasingly important subject of Semantic Web search.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Eyal Oren, who has just completed his Ph.D at the Galway (Ireland) site of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). They talk about activity at DERI, touching upon their Sindice semantic web index, their work on SIOC, and the potential of data linked across the open web. They conclude by taking an early look at Eyal's new job at VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

In this Talking with Talis podcast Paul Miller talks with Troy Lane Williams, CEO of stealth semantic technology startup PeoplePad. They discuss Troy's previous position at Questia, exploring the business model and vision that saw a company working with publishers to digitise print publications in the years before Google began their digitisation effort, before turning to PeoplePad and the opportunity to offer consumer-facing applications built upon Semantic Web technologies and approaches.