September 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss Government data and data.gov

The  Semantic Web Gang we are joined by Brand Niemann of the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a discussion of efforts to apply semantic technologies to Government data in the USA and elsewhere.  Listen to the podcast.

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The Semantic web is being used to reconnect Colombians displaced in the country’s civil conflict

BBC NEWS http://cstat.us/30
“Semantic web technology” is being used to reconnect Colombians displaced in the country’s civil conflict.
“The displaced population in Colombia is the most vulnerable because their fundamental rights are massively violated,” Juan Sequeda, who works on the project, told the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet programme.
“Their [physical] social networks are weakened.”
The international team aim [...]

Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium

In a recent podcast interview (by Eric Miller),Ivan Herman gives an overview of recent Semantic web
development activity. He talks about how in the past year all the primary components of the semantic web have come into place for developing new applications. Linked Data, Microformats, OWL, RDF, RDFa, SPARQL have all been established now as universal [...]

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