Linked Data and URIs

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Linked Data UK Government Linked Data Working Group (UKGovLD) Alexander Coley @alexrcoley

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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 workshop

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Linked DataUK Government Linked Data Working Group (UKGovLD)

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Alexander Coley @alexrcoley

UKGovLD

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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Data as part of the Webrather than just on the web

map of the internet

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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RDF and APIsLinked Data is not a format

there does not have to be (there is not) one way

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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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URIs & RegistriesStandards & Technologies

Some Existing ProjectsINSPIRE EIONET Copernicus ISA W3C/OGC Collaboration !

etcmap of the internet

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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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