Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info.

In this conversation we find out how Ed's career, not always on a traditional library path, has led him to his work in the Library of Cong...

Karen Schneider has had a varied career in libraries, she is best known as an entertaining and informative speaker at library conferences, author of many articles, and prolific blogger as Free Range Librarian.

Karen recently announced another career move to become Community Librarian, for Open Source library software support company, Equ...

Program Services Librarian at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Canada, Allan Cho, has a theme of the Semantic Web running through many of his post on his blog Allan's Library.

In this Talking with Talis conversation we discuss the newly created role of Program Services Librarian, Allan's thoughts...

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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Rachel Bruce of JISC and Anne Bell of SCONUL join me in the latest Talking with Talis podcast to discuss the recently published JISC & SCONUL Library Management Systems Study - An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK higher education.

We discuss the report,...

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 I talk with Larry Johnson, Alan Levine and Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium. We discuss the 2008 edition of their Horizon Report, exploring both their methods and the wide-ranging implications for Higher Education of their findings.

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The guest for this Talking with Talis Podcast is Fiona Bradley, Australian Librarian working for IFLA in the Netherlands.

Fiona Launched the blog Semantic Library, to help her find out more about the Semantic Web.  We discuss what she has discovered from the blog and the relevance of the Semantic Web to libraries.

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Today we're launching a further series of podcasts to add to the range currently available to you. This new Semantic Web Gang will be a regular monthly show, tapping into insights on the news of the moment from some of those at the forefront in bringing the Semantic Web vision to reality.

Gang members for the first show...

In our latest podcast I talk with Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. We 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 relevan...