Semantic Web Company talked with Kingsley Idehen who is CEO of OpenLink Software and probably one of the most profound experts on data integration issues about “Linked Data”.

The interview covers questions like:

  • How can Linked Data help to make companies more productive?
  • Do you think that the Linked Data Initiative can build upon a stable architecture or will it face more and more problems the bigger the “cloud” will grow?
  • What´s the ultimate argument for an Enterprise Architect to use languages like SPARQL at least in addition to SQL?
  • How will a “Real Time Semantic Web” change the whole game?
  • How will the “Semantic Web” be called in 10 years? Will there still be a “Semantic Web”?

Read the full version of the interview here.

We recently heard that Oracle 11G loaded RDF faster than we did. Now, we never thought the speed of loading a database was as important as the speed of query results, but since this is the sole area where they have reportedly been tested as faster, we decided it was time loading was addressed. Indeed, without Oracle to challenge us on query performance, we would not be half as good as we are. So, spurred on by the Oracular influence, we did something about our RDF loading.

Read more on Orri Erling’s Weblog…

This is the weblog of the EUREKA Eurostars SCMS project : Semantic Content Management Systems for Enterprise Knowledge Management and News Mining.

The SCMS project is a project funded in the EUREKA Eurostars! Programme. It started in October 2009 and has a duration of 33 months until June 2012. The project consortium consists of 5 partners from 4 differnt countries. If you are interested in the project just read the ‘about section’.

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