Linked Open Data

Daniel Lewisdaniel.lewis@okfn.org

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

For more information on LOD2...

http://lod2.eu/

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 :: daniel.lewis@okfn.org

presenting on behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation :: http://okfn.org/

and this has been my talk on Linked Open Data in EuropeThank you...