ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data and beyond
28.07.2009
Richard MacManus, Editor in Chief of ReadWriteWeb, cordially allowed us to republish his interview with Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data, Search Engines, User Interfaces for Data, Wolfram Alpha, And More...
Part 1: Linked Data
During my recent trip to Boston, I had the opportunity to visit MIT. At the end of a long day of meetings with various MIT tech masterminds, I made my way to the funny shaped building (see photo right-below) where the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its director Tim Berners-Lee work. Berners-Lee is of course the man who invented the World Wide Web 20 years ago.
Read the full interview here.
Part 2: Search Engines, User Interfaces for Data, Wolfram Alpha, And More...
In part 2 of my one-on-one interview with Tim Berners-Lee, we explore a variety of topics relating to Linked Data and the Semantic Web. If you missed it, in Part 1 of the interview we covered the emergence of Linked Data and how it is being used now even by governments.
In Part 2 we discuss: how previously reticent search engines like Google and Yahoo have begun to participate in the Semantic Web in 2009, user interfaces for browsing and using data, what Tim Berners-Lee thinks of new computational engine Wolfram Alpha, how e-commerce vendors are moving into the Linked Data world, and finally how the Internet of Things intersects with the Semantic Web.
Read the full interview here.