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A presentation by Daniel Lewis of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Delivered at the Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland (CIGS) Linked Open Data (LOD) Conference which took place Fri 21 September 2012 at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation.
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OKFN in a nutshell...
Promotes Open Knowledge because:•Better Governance•Better Culture•Better Research•Better Economy
OKFN in a nutshell...
How?Regional Chapters•Cambridge•London•Edinburgh•Germany•Finland•Brazil•South Africa•...
Projects•CKAN•OpenSpending•School of Data•Textus•Public Domain Review•Open Shakespeare•...
Working Groups•Open GLAM•Open Economics•Open Linguistics•...
Your Presenter...Daniel LewisAt Present:•Full Time PhD Student @ Bristol - Intelligent Systems Lab, investigating Association Rules and Fuzzy Concept Lattices•Part-Time "Community Coordinator, Data Wrangler and Linked Data Consultant" @ Open Knowledge Foundation. Primarily assisting with Linked Data and Linked Open Data.History:•Various positions - Web Dev., Software Eng.r., Self Employed Consultant•... Technology Evangelist for OpenLink Software, promoting the use of the Semantic Web & Linked Data•... Research Intern at the Knowledge Media Institute (The Open University) looking at Social Semantic Tools and Taxonomies
OKFN + Linked Data...
We feel...Linked Open Data
is data in the community
it has context
and allows collaboration
“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”
Why Linked Data?
OKFN + Linked Data...
What are we doing about it?
ckan
A catalogue of datasets
Powers data.gov.uk and other government dataset websites around the world
For various formats, not just Linked Data... so CSV, Web Services, PDF, MS Excel...
OKFN + Linked Data...
ckanfeatures
ckan
Link to datasets
Store datasets
Search, Query and Filter
Visualisation and Analytics
Access control
and more...
http://ckan.org
OKFN + Linked Data...
What are we doing about it?
ckan
The Open Knowledge Foundation are official partners in the LOD2 project.•EU Funded (FP7)•Industry and Academic Members•Promote LOD to business and the public sector•Advance LOD tools•Advance LOD techniques•Advance LOD datasets
OKFN + LOD2
What are we doing about it?
ckan
ckan is one of the official LOD2 tools....
What are we doing about it?
Dataset Catalogue
Aggregation of all public data in the EU.
Enhanced with Linked Data Methods - RDF, SPARQL, Visualisation.publicdata.eu
Features
Everything that ckan and data.gov.uk has, plus...
EU Applications* About Corporations* About taxes* About legislation
LOD Availability Mappublicdata.eu
Who else?
Universities & R&D Organisations:University of Economics in the Czech RepublicNational University of Ireland, GalwayUniversität LeipzigFreie Universität BerlinKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Instytut Informatyki Gospodarczej in PolandInstitute Mihajlo Pupin in SerbiaCentrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands
Business & Industry:Open Knowledge FoundationOpenLink SoftwareTenForceExaleadZemantaWolters Kluwer
Who has it helped directly?
2010 Publink:•Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria•Greater London Authority, U.K.•The City of Vienna, Austria•Instituto Canario des Estadística (ISTA), Canary Islands•EU Digital Agenda Scoreboard, Belgium•"Deutsche Biographie" project of the Historische Kommission, Germany
o www.deutsche-biographie.de
Who has it helped directly?
2011 Publink:•Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy•European Environment Agency, Denmark•Birmingham City Council, England•Municipality of Udine, Italy•Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia•Bezirksverordnetenversammlung Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
History and Future
" The Semantic Web is dead! "...
" Long Live the Semantic Web! "
?
History and Future
The Semantic Web is dead!!!!
Why?
History and FutureWhy did the Semantic Web not work in Business?
Target Audience, perhaps
Linked Data Future
Linked Data
Academia
Business
Human Users
Community& Society
Semantic Web
Machine Users
Linked Data Future
Linked Data
Easier tools
Easier methods
Integration
Usable Schema
It is about information, rather than logic
Linked Data Future
Interesting Links...
• OKFN: http://okfn.org/• LOD2: http://lod2.eu/• CKAN: http://ckan.org/• PublicData.eu: http://publicdata.eu/ • Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana:
http://dm2e.eu/ • Open GLAM: http://openglam.org/• Open Bibliography: http://openbiblio.net/• Open Humanities: http://humanities.okfn.org/ • Public Domain Review:
http://publicdomainreview.org/• Open Shakespeare: http://openshakespeare.org/ • Scotland OKFN mailing list:
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ok-scotland
Thank You
Daniel Lewis :: [email protected]
presenting on behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation :: http://okfn.org/
and this has been my talk on Linked Open Data in EuropeThank you...
