linked data and uris
DESCRIPTION
Slides used giving an overview of public sector use of open data standards, URIs and role that linked data can play (and where it might be useful) plus the role in things like earth observations and INSPIRE… creating hooks for the later talks at the Space Applications Catapult workshopTRANSCRIPT
Open Standardsreducing lock-in, enabling for new innovation
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Open GovernmentDigital, Transparency and the National Information Infrastructure
Photo from the London Eye by alexrcoley
Identifying thingsreferring to those things and persistence
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Location & Observationslinking to packages of information
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Flexible data architecturereusable components, not in a silo, small iterative improvements
lego blocks played with by Freya
Connective Reference Datadata that enables inter-connections
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Linked Data in the UKa lot of work
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UK GovernmentStandards Departments and Agencies Devolved Administrations Trading Funds
EuropeINSPIRE EEA and JRC Copernicus ISA
ResearchNERC
JISC/Edina Universities
Private SectorLinked Data SMEs
Finance & Medical Sectors Search & Social
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Opportunitiesfor the space & earth observation community
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Enabling change “build the right technology, using modern methods & approaches, or to employ agile computing firms that regard £100k as a lot of money & that
are accustomed to delivering on time”
Frameworks into rich datasupporting the “big data” thing
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Where next?
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Alexander Coley @alexrcoley [email protected]
Westminster by alexrcoley
standards.data.gov.uk/challenge/persistent-resolvable-identifiers
data.gov.uk/linked-data/ukgovld
www.gov.uk/service-manual
www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data
www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases
References
github.com/organizations/UKGovLD
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