The Semantic Web of Data

What people publish on the Web is much more helpful if it includes computer-readable information about what it means. The Web's inventor explains how this is happening and will transform society, science, business, and more.

Interviewee: Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium

2007

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.