The Semantic Web at MIT Technology Review

Yet another memorable webcast of a Tim Berners-Lee fast paced lecture. This one in the 45 min formal seminar:

Opening Keynote - The Semantic Web,
Tim Berners-LeeSeptember 29, 2004 8:40 AM
LOCATION:Kresge Auditorium
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NOTES ON THE VIDEO (Time Index):Video length is 58:03.
At 3:22, Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief, Technology Review, introduces Tim Berners-Lee.
At 3:47, Tim Berners-Lee begins.
At 38:25, Q&A begins, with Bob Metcalfe, Founder, 3Com Corporation, and General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners, moderating.
At 48:03 Metcalfe asks Berners-Lee, "What web browser do you use?"

A Semantic Web Of Data

Tim Berners Lee talks on MIT Technology Review

Link to Video

Tim Berners Lee talks about what the Semantic Web of Data is and zooms in on its importance for life sciences research. A very significant part of integrative bioinformatics research is to be able to reproducde the results of previous study and for that access to the data has to be easy, both for humans and applications.
Particularly insighfull is his incredibly simple description of the role of RDF in the future web of data: RDF is to data as XML is to documents.

To ontology or not to ontology?

That is the million dollar (billion :)) question. Read it and come to your own conclusions...
1)New technologies will make online search more intelligent--and may even lead to a "Web 3.0." part 1 and part 2
2)The Darker Side of the Semantic Web click here
3)Adaptation, or more likely contortion, of these technologies to be biologically relevant... coming soon...

PodCast on SPARQL and the Semantic Web

In this ITConversations podcast reccorded 2006-07-17 [MP3], Elias Torres, a senior software engineer at IBM and a member of several W3C working groups, gives us an overview of the Semantic Web and how RDF and SPARQL are set to become the tools of choice when extracting data from the World Wide Web. In an interview, hosted by Phil Windley, Torres discusses what has happened to this technology in the past, where it is hopefully going in the near future, and what you can do today to take advantage of it.

Digital Future of the United States: Part I - The Future of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee congressional hearing March 2, 2007 on the topic "Digital Future of the United States: Part I - The Future of the World Wide Web".

For information on Time Berner-Lee start with his entry on wikipedia and then proceed to his own page at W3C. This hearing was hosted by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Energy and Commerce Commitee, of the US House of representatives.

Note mention of the Mayo Clinical medical reccord system @20min even before the hearing starts and a few times later. The actual hearing only starts afetr 30 min introduction by the congressional sub-cPlease add you own notes to this entry when you hear it to help the rest of us go back to particular excerpts. Here is the direct link to the podcast.

Data integration at ~ 00:41:40
Life Sciences data integration through semantic web ~ 00:44:00 mins
Web Science at min 48, this topic is expanded in Science. 2006 Aug 11;313(5788):769-71.

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Questions:
> 1:24:30 - property rights