Linked Data PatternsLinked Data Meetup, 25/02/2013

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What is a Design Pattern?

...a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context...

... a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_pattern_(computer_science)

Benefits of Design Patterns (General)

● Simple focused discussion of a single issue

● Encourage discussion of related or complementary approaches

● Capture successful, oft-repeated designs (and failures)

● Build a lexicon: a language for practitioners that improves communication

Benefits of Linked Data Patterns

● Supplement existing publishing guides & tutorials

● Provide clear guidance on common problems & questions

● Help people avoid common pit-falls

● Improve quality of published data

● Lower barrier to entry

http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/

Identifier Patterns

● How do we partition a URI space?

● How do we use existing keys to build URIs?

● How can we make linking easier?

● How can we work around lack of stable identifiers for common resources?

Modelling Patterns

● How do we get the most from a graph based model?

● How can we best handle semi-structured and/or multi-lingual data?

● How can we describe complex relationships between resources?

● How can we annotate relationships between resources?

Publishing Patterns

● How do we best publish data on the web?

● How do we link to other sources of data?

● How can we annotate existing data?

● How do we link documents and data?

● How do we enhance data over time?

● How do we remove data from the web?

Data Management Patterns

● How can we organise data in a triple store?

● What are the different ways in which we can partition a graph to make it easier to manage?

● How can we annotate and describe collections of RDF statements?

● How can we track the sources of RDF statements?

Application Patterns

● How do we build applications over RDF data?

● How do we collect and aggregate data from across the web (or an enterprise?

● How do we validate RDF data?

● How do we transform and merge data?

Future Work

● Mixed architectures

● Data conversion work flows

● API design

● Data discovery

Book:http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/

Source:http://github.com/ldodds/ld-patterns

Me:@ldodds