As a new application development architecture stack complete with its own cryptic acronym, XRX (XForms/REST/XQuery) is a good example of “sounds promising, but I don’t know when I’ll have a chance to dig deeper”. So, I was very happy to hear that Jeni Tennison is digging deeper and reporting on her findings.

The first ever Linked Data conference, sponsored by Jupiter Media at New York City’s Roosevelt hotel last Tuesday and Wednesday, was great. I didn’t give any talks, but as co-chair I put together the program with Ken North and with his throat bothering him a bit I did most of the speaker introductions. I also moderated the Linked Data Workshop panel, a session that provided the audience with a good range of perspectives on some difficult Linked Data application development issues…

Earley & Associates is one of the biggest names in taxonomy development, and founder Seth Earley will be giving a talk on Building a Practical Semantic Framework: The role of taxonomies and controlled vocabularies in data integration at the Linked Data Planet conference next week. My recent reading makes the world of taxonomy development look a lot more mature than the ontology development that plays such a significant role in the semantic web, especially in terms of identifying concepts and…

Anyone who follows the XML or semantic web world knows of Uche Ogbuji’s work. His presentation Linked Data: The Real Web 2.0. will be one of the first talks on the first day of the Linked Data Planet conference next week; as we prepare for it, I asked him a few questions about his work with Linked Data and the benefits its brought to clients of his company, Zepheira.

As part of the Linked Data Planet conference, on June 18th I’m hosting a panel described on the conference program like this:

Storing information about the meaning of terms—their “semantics”—can make data more valuable. Critics of semantic web technology consider such talk to be pie-in-the-sky AI talk; how can you encode the real meaning of words? More importantly, how can you do it in a way that programs can read and use to solve real data problems?