Tony Shaw: Hi Olly, so to get us started, could you give me a high-level overview of what Atigeo does?

"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little.

The new W3C Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) standard will be featured at RuleML 2009 (see http://2009.ruleml.org), co-located with the Business Rules Forum in November 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. There will be a tutorial about RIF by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG/IBM, co-chair of the RIF WG) and a keynote by Sandro Hawke (W3C staff representative on the RIF WG) “Bringing Order to Chaos: RIF as the New Standard for Rule Interchange”.