Geospatial Semantic Web Blog

Podcasts and videos that discuss geospatial technology and the Semantic Web. If you have other links that you would like to share with the readers, email me.

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Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web, Tom Gruber, Keynote speech, The 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)

Summary: The Semantic Web is an ecosystem of interaction among computer systems. The social web is an ecosystem of conversation among people. Both are enabled by conventions for layered services and data exchange. Both are driven by human-generated content and made scalable by machine-readable data. Yet there is a popular misconception that the two worlds are alternative, opposing ideologies about how the web ought to be. Folksonomy vs. ontology. Practical vs. formalistic. Humans vs. machines.

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Interview with Peter Morville (author of Ambient Findability), VerySpatial Podcast, January 15, 2006.

Summary: VerySpatail interviews that Peter Morville on the subject Ambient Findability. Ambient Findability is a notion that describes things in the physical world can be easily found, tracked, searched, and geo-located in an anywhere any time fashion. Peter thinks Ambient Findability is the cross-breed of ubiquitous computing and the Web.

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The Quest for Reliable Directions, NRP, January 10, 2006.

Summary: Experts talked about map data usage in popular mapping service web sites such as Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps and MapQuest.

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The New Sense of the Web, OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, January 03, 2006.

Summary: The digital realm is exploding into the physical world. They call it the “geo-spatial web.” Already it means online maps loaded with information about the physical world, and someday soon, that physical world itself will be tagged and teeming with data for the asking: What is that building? Where is my dog? Who is that man? Hear about the ambitions and implications of the “geospatial web.

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Turn left at the Internet, MarketPlace, November 22, 2005.

Summary: Online mapping programs are among the most popular Internet tools. Trade in geographic data generates hundreds of millions each year. Rachel Dornhelm talked to the folks who give those online sites their sense of direction.

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Podcasts from Where 2.0 Conference 2005, San Francisco, California, June 29-30, 2005.

Summary: Where 2.0 brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into the location based technological frontier. These podcasts consists of presentations by researchers and managers from MIT, Yahoo!, Google, MAYA, NAVTEQ and more.