I’ve already moaned, several times, about the difficulty in explaining what the semantic web is, let alone what it offers EU affairs. Now, via @jangles via Lee Hopkins (from my home town, Adelaide, Australia), a terrific video by Kate Ray:

I hit pause at about 3 minutes in to [...]

Suddenly everyone’s twittering about the semantic web. The announcement of UK30m to fund the Institute of Web Science, led by Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Nigel Shadbolt, probably has something to do with it. It’s been a long time coming – I met TB-L when he was in Brussels to drum up support for this [...]

I’ve posted before on the importance of the semantic web to EU policies and programmes. Here’s a quite well-executed video about the EU’s cluster of projects in the area of Future Internet, which encompasses semantic research, a pervasive internet of things, etc. It’s not on YouTube so, like the video of Tim Berners-Lee I posted [...]

The inventor of the Web is now advising the UK government on public information delivery. Interestingly, this was positioned within “a statement on constitutional reform” – an apt indication of the impact which information delivery, when done properly, can have on governance. According to the Cabinet Office (11 June): Sir Tim Berners-Lee … will head [...]

I stumbled upon a short video on the BBC of Tim Berners-Lee trying to explain the importance of the data web, aka semantic web, again. He himself says that he can’t say where it will lead us, as it is paradigm changing. True – but I can think of a few applications that anyone interested [...]