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Paul has been involved with the web since its earliest days, addressing issues of technology and policy most recently at Talis and previously in a range of public sector positions.At The Cloud of Data, Paul provides consultancy and analysis services to a wide range of clients concerned with the implications...- more about Paul Miller »
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- Oracle delivers native support for Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais service
- Thomson Reuters and Oracle today announced support for the media giant's OpenCalais metadata generation service within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g. The integration gives Oracle users and developers direct access to OpenCalais' natural language processing NLP capabilities. More importantly, perhaps, direct integration with an Enterprise product...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Oracle Corp., Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web
- Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration's Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers. ...
- Tags: Government, Semantic Web, Podcasts, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- New open source Semantic Web store from Garlik capable of enterprise scale
- An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of Semantic Web ideas is that of 'scale.' With many of the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions of RDF triples, it can be difficult to...
- Tags: Open Source, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Semantic Web Gang podcast looks back at the Semantic Technology Conference
- June's episode of the regular Semantic Web Gang podcast was recorded on stage at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose. Audio and video of the session is now available, with Gang members and conference organiser Tony Shaw engaging in a discussion of the event's highlights and...
- Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- New York Times embraces Linked Data
- The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper's innovative adoption of semantic technologies; "The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and...
- Tags: Paper, New York Times Co., Linked Data, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith
- Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...
- Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference
- Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...
- Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri
- This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Bing is not alone; similar techniques alive and well in existing vertical search
- Microsoft's Bing is attracting plenty of interest today, and perhaps deservedly so as it brings some interesting fresh ideas to the world of generic search engines. Whether it is sufficiently compelling to break our deeply ingrained association of 'search' with 'Google' remains to be seen. It should...
- Tags: Endeca Technologies Inc., Technique, Robin, Podcasts, Productivity, Search, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Semantic Web Gang podcast discusses Wolfram Alpha and Google's Rich Snippets
- This month has seen Google announce 'Rich Snippets' and Wolfram Research release Alpha to a flurry of mainstream media coverage; both are of interest to those working on the Semantic Web. This month's episode of the Semantic Web Gang takes a look at both stories, and Gang...
- Tags: Google Inc., Podcast, Mainstream Media, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Can semantic technologies help brands profit from social media?
- In my latest podcast interview with those shaping our evolving engagement with Semantic Technologies, I speak with Eric Hillerbrand. Drawing upon years of experience in the development and deployment of Semantic Web solutions, Eric has spent the past few years considering the ways in which semantic technologies...
- Tags: Brand, Social Media, Branding, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- The Semantic Web Gang discuss ontologies
- Back in October I wrote about the first Vocabulary Camp, or VoCamp. These informal gatherings have gone from strength to strength, and the fourth is currently underway on the Spanish island of Ibiza. A report from the island by Yahoo's Peter Mika begins this month's episode of...
- Tags: Ontology, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Leigh Dodds talks about Talis Connected Commons
- I wrote about Talis' Connected Commons last month, and today spent some time talking with the company's Platform Programme Manager, Leigh Dodds. The conversation has just been released as a podcast which looks at the rationale behind the company's offer and the specific licensing choices that beneficiaries...
- Tags: Connected Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- True Knowledge API lies at the heart of real business model
- Semantically powered question answering start-up True Knowledge today made its Semantic Search API available for public consumption, taking the next step on the company's journey out of beta and providing a clear steer as to the way in which they intend to generate revenue. As the company's...
- Tags: Knowledge, Knowledge Base, True Knowledge, Query API, True Knowledge Home Page, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium
- Ivan Herman is Semantic Web Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and in this podcast he talks about a range of current activities across the Semantic Web community. by Paul Miller
- Tags: W3C, Ivan Herman, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- AdaptiveBlue updates Glue; I avoid 'sticky' puns with this title
- New York-based semantic technology startup AdaptiveBlue yesterday unveiled an update to their Glue product, and the world's technology writers were unable to contain their enthusiasm for the obvious puns. I spoke with AdaptiveBlue's CEO, Alex Iskold, ahead of the launch to hear about the latest enhancements. Currently...
- Tags: Film, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Wiki, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Growing the Linked Data pool, with the Talis Connected Commons
- Back in December of 2008, I wrote about a new initiative from Amazon to make large sets of public data more accessible. Amazon offered to mount the data for free, and for developers writing applications elsewhere in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem even the bandwidth cost of communicating with GenBank,...
- Tags: Data, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Jeff Pollock discusses his new book, The Semantic Web for Dummies
- Oracle's Jeff Pollock has been involved with Semantic Technologies for more than a decade, and puts that experience to good use in his latest book, Semantic Web for Dummies. I spoke with Jeff yesterday, and the result has just been released as a podcast. ...
- Tags: Jeff Pollock, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Dame Wendy Hall talks about Web Science
- I must admit that I've tended to be rather sceptical about the whole topic of 'Web Science,' as proposed by the University of Southampton and MIT through their shared Web Science Research Initiative WSRI. My initial view was that we really don't need yet another academic subject...
- Tags: Web, Computer Science, Computer, Dame Wendy Hall, Channel Management, Productivity, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Managing the flow at Davos
- The World Economic Forum WEF and numerous ancillary events kick off in Davos this week, and despite an apparent dearth of bankers the small Swiss town will play host to even more politicians, business leaders and journalists than usual. Most mainstream news outlets devote significant airtime, column...
- Tags: World Economic Forum, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
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