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Norman Gray Talks with Talis about Astronomy and the Semantic Web

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Norman Gray of the European Virtual Observatory's Technology Centre (Euro-VOTech). We talk about Astronomy, and some of the ways in which Semantic Web ideas and methods are beginning to play a role.

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Download MP3 [67 mins, 32Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• arxiv.org
• AstroGrid
• Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
• Atacama Large Millimetre/ submillimetre Array (ALMA)
• e-Science Centre
• European Space Agency (ESA)
• Explicator project
• FITS image format
• Google Sky
• Jim Gray
• International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA)
• Large Hadron Collider, CERN
• Linked Open Data
• Microsoft telescope
• Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data database (SIMBAD)
• Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
• Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
• SKUA project
• Sloan digital sky survey
• Tycho Catalogue
• Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO)

This conversation was conducted using iChat on Monday 10 March, recorded with Ecamm Network's Conference Recorder, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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Posted by Paul Miller at 11:45 on 16 March 2008

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