By Tim Davies on September 10, 2011
I’m getting closer to a final draft of an IKM Working Paper on Linked Data & Development, building on learning from a number of pilot projects working with linked data and the 2010 IKM Workshop on open linked information. It’s take a while both because we decided to commission some extra mapping of the open data […]
Posted in IKM Emergent, Linked Data, NGO
By Tim Davies on June 4, 2011
For the Linked Data for Development paper I’m working on (slowly but surely…), I’ve been trying to unpack some of the implications that flow from the choices that linked data publishers make about the identifiers to use in their datasets. Here’s a quick draft of one section I’m considering for the paper on that topic: […]
Posted in Linked Data
By Tim Davies on May 11, 2011
This is a quick placeholder post about a project I’ve been sketching ideas around for a while, but which is finally getting started in earnest. The Social Life of Data is an IKM Emergent supported pilot exploring ways to capture and display information about: How particular open datasets have been used; Who is involved in […]
Posted in IKM Emergent, Linked Data
By Tim Davies on May 2, 2011
Jump to the latest version of diagram Update 15.00 2nd May: Based on feedback I’m veering away from seeing this as a ‘stack’ distinct from the semantic web stack, towards trying to highlight specific ‘pieces of the linked data puzzle’ in the revised diagram towards the bottom of this post. Earlier section left intact for […]
Posted in Linked Data
By Tim Davies on September 30, 2010
The following poster (also available on the report pages – please link there if referencing) was presented at the ‘Web Science: A New Frontier’ satellite meeting at The Royal Society Kavli Centre, 29th September 2010 and summarises some elements of the study. Click the image to access a full-size version on Flickr, or find a PDF copy […]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc, Open Data, Other Governments, UK National Goverment
By Tim Davies on May 13, 2010
The FutureEverything conference today has been a veritable festival of open data talks and inputs, including inputs from Will Perrin, Chris Taggart, James Darling, Emer Coleman, Carole Goble, Nigel Shadbolt, Zach Beauvais, Jordan Hatcher and David Eaves. Whilst many speakers have been talking about the challenges of getting open data up online – challenging organisational […]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc, Open Data, Policy, UK Local Government, UK National Goverment | Tagged futureeverything, Open Data
By Tim Davies on March 10, 2010
One of the great things about the OII Library is you never know who you will bump into. This afternoon, Professor James Hendler from the curiously-hard-name-to-parse-for-a-place-focussed-on-semantic-web Tetherless World Constellation (it’s a constellation of researchers studying the ‘Tetherless World’) was there – and we got talking about the differences between US and UK open data initiatives. Whereas […]
Posted in Linked Data | Tagged Data.gov, James Hendler, Linked Data, RDF query language, Semantic Web, SPARQL
By Tim Davies on March 9, 2010
Around a year ago, Tim Berners-Lee stood in front of the TED Conference and had the delegates chanting ‘Raw Data Now’. In the six-minute talk below, Berners-Lee is back in front of TED reporting on developments of the last 12-months that mean much of the raw data is flowing. The video includes some great hat-tips […]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc | Tagged Linked Data, NewsPaper Club, Open Knowledge Foundation, Paul Clarke, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Science Trust
By Tim Davies on November 28, 2009
At Oxford Geek Night 15, Jeni Tennison presented to the assembled crowd an overview of the UK Government Open Data project currently in a developers beta. If you want to get a good overview of what ‘data.gov.uk’ is all about – then it’s a great 15 minute introduction: Watch it here (MP4)
Posted in Linked Data, Open Data, UK National Goverment
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