Kerstin Forsberg CDISC Interchange Europe 2011 eHR and the World Beyond

One example

1 Linked Spending Data –

How and Why Bother

http://spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/spend/8605670

Globally identified by a URI

From the Linking Open Data cloud

A Payment from Lichfield District

Council, one local authority in the UK.

Linked Data Introduction (Extras)

Spending Data in UK

Two things to remember

RDF Triples

has the color The sky blue

Example from a text book

comment The property Net Amount “The net amount of the payment.

This is the effective cost to the

payer after any reclaimable tax

has been deducted.”

Triples for the standards that provides the semantics

subclass of The class Expenditure Line Observation in a multi-dimensional

data cube for statistics

subject predicat object Resource

Description

Framework

Payment number 8605670

Payment number 8605670

Payment number 8605670

Net Amount 120.00

Example from the Spending data example in UK

Type Expenditure Line

Payer Lichfield District Council

Lichfield District Council Type Local Authority

2 Linked Data Introduction (Extras)

Two things to remember

Global Identifiers

Examples of Identifiers for “types of things” / “standards for things”

http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/payment#netAmount

http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/payment#ExpenditureLine

http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#Observation

http://statistics.data.gov.uk/def/administrative-geography/LocalAuthority

Uniform

Resource

Identifier

URI

Examples of Identifiers for “things” in Spending data example

http://spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/spend/8605670

http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/41UD

3 Linked Data Introduction (Extras)

Kerstin Forsberg CDISC Interchange Europe 2011 eHR and the World Beyond

One example – “under the hood”

Live view using the Web Data Inspector

2 of 10 RDF Triples

4 Linked Data Introduction (Extras)

Kerstin Forsberg CDISC Interchange Europe 2011 eHR and the World Beyond

One example – with a top-down approach to

standardization of the semantics

Live view using the Web Data Inspector

The Payment Ontology

5 Linked Data Introduction (Extras)

Kerstin Forsberg CDISC Interchange Europe 2011 eHR and the World Beyond

UK government: Top-down approach to

standardization for Spending Data Statistical Data perspective

Linked Data Cube Vocabulary

Payment Ontology

6

Guide to the

Payments Ontology

The RDF Data Cube

vocabulary

Presentation:

Statistical Data in RDF

Linked Data Introduction (Extras)