(a hopefully fairly painless introduction to) linked open data
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A presentation given to the NSW Reference and Information Services Group seminar at the State Library of NSW, 4 May 2010. My aim was to provide a non-technical introduction to Linked Data and the Semantic Web that would help people see the possibilities and give them some tools and ideas so that they could go away and start playing with.TRANSCRIPT
(a hopefully fairly painless introduction to)
Linked open data
Tim Sherratt@wragge
‘the next generation of the web’
‘the web done right’
From a web of documents to a web of data
RDF, RDFa, GRDDL, OWL, SPARQL, FOAF, SIOC, DOAP etc etc
●The problem with the web●The solution●Getting started●The future
The problem
Computers are dumb
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
http://naa.gov.au/whats-on/online/feature-exhibits/dismissal/index.aspx
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It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
people
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
peoplepositions
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
peoplepositionsplaces
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
peoplepositionsplacesevents
Whitlam, Edward Gough
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
Kerr, Sir John
It was business as usual in the House of Representatives. At 2.00pm on 11 November 1975, the Deputy Prime Minister, Frank Crean, resumed the defence of the Whitlam government against an Opposition censure motion. But below the surface momentous events were in train. ‘What would happen, for argument’s sake, if someone else were to come in here in a few minutes and say he was now Prime Minister of this country’, Crean hinted cryptically.
As he spoke, government staffers were beginning to empty their offices. Rumours were spreading through Parliament House. Soon the dramatic news was confirmed. The Whitlam government had been sacked by the Governor-General.
Crean’s job was to stall for time while his leader planned his response. Ten minutes earlier, Crean had been at the Lodge discussing tactics with Whitlam and others. There was no doubt in Whitlam’s mind that the House of Representatives held the key. It was in the House that governments were made and unmade, not in the offices of the Governor-General. Surrounded by senior members and staff, Whitlam drafted a notice of motion that he hoped would restore his government to power.
Lat: -35.3020970Lon: 149.1299200
Links are dumb
Meshups not mashups!
The solution
The Semantic Web
[Kevin Rudd] [is Prime Minister of] [Australia]
[Sydney] [is the capital of] [New South Wales]
Linked Open Data
You are not a web page
http://discontents.com.au/foaf.rdf
http://discontents.com.au/foaf.rdf#me
http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
Getting started
RDFa for beginners
'Whitlam' is a person
'Whitlam' has the name 'Whitlam, Gough'
'Whitlam' is the primary topic of http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-543241
<a typeof="foaf:Person" property="foaf:name" content="Whitlam, Gough" rel="foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf" href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-543241">Whitlam</a>
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
The motion that might have saved the Whitlam government
http://naa.gov.au/whats-on/online/feature-exhibits/dismissal/index.aspx
Looking at the sun(for computers)
The wonders of machine tags
Nellie Melbahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/4573465385/
Wragge in the newshttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4818253
The future
Tim Sherratt ([email protected])
@wragge on Twitter
Words: http://discontents.com.au/
Experiments: http://wraggelabs.com/