LinkedGeoData.org is a project by AKSW research group at Universität Leipzig aiming at extracting and publishing geo data collected by the OpenStreetMap.org project as RDF and Linked Data.
January 17, 2010 By Scott Brinker 4 Comments
The 8th linked data business model
In response to my post on linked data business models, Leigh Dodds at Talis wrote a terrific piece with his thoughts on the business of linked data. Leigh presents a number of great ideas that I think really carry the conversation forward.
One of his points is that I overlooked an important model, what he calls the “sponsorship model.” Under this model, a government entity or a non-profit organization has a funded mandate to deliver certain data to the public or their targeted constituency. I’d humbly suggest calling it the subsidized model though, to avoid confusion, because sponsorship is often associated with advertising and branding — very different business models.
The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF."
This site exists to provide a home for, or pointers to, resources from across the Linked Data community.
Many industry observers predict IT employees of the future will be less focused on building and delivering services and more focused on integrating and managing them. I wrote about this shift earlier this month, sharing some scary forecasts from the Corporate Executive Board's Information Technology Practice and titling my post "Say Goodbye to IT as We Know It." A Computerworld article strikes a similar theme (and title) with "IT Careers 2010: The End of IT as We Know It." You can accuse journalists of having a sensationalistic bent, but IT pros themselves recognize a shift is under way. Twenty-six percent of IT pros surveyed by Computerworld last month said that while their role will still exist in 2020, "it will have changed dramatically." Another 10 percent said their current job would no longer exist, and 7 percent said it was "not likely" their job would still be around.
voiD (from "Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets") is an RDF based schema to describe linked datasets. With voiD the discovery and usage of linked datasets can be performed both effectively and efficiently. A dataset is a collection of data, published and maintained by a single provider, available as RDF, and accessible, for example, through dereferenceable HTTP URIs or a SPARQL endpoint.
The Open University is the first university in the UK to open up access to online data from across the institution as part of the Linked Open Data Movement.
British National Bibliography (BNB) published as Linked Data by the British Library, linked to external sources including VIAF, LCSH, Lexvo, GeoNames, MARC country, and language, Dewey.info, RDF Book Mashup. Published to this data model for books and this data model for serials.
Current release of approximately 2.8 million descriptions (93,583,853 triples) of books (including monographs published over time) and serials published in the UK over the last 60 years. Future releases will extend coverage to include multipart works, integrating resources, kits and forthcoming publications. The objective is to create a regularly updated dataset covering UK publications since 1950.
Datos.bne.es is the Linked Data service of the National Library of Spain. It is
a joint experimental development by the BNE and the Ontology Engineering Group (a leading pioneering group in Semantic Web in Spain, from the Technical University of Madrid), whose aim is to explore capabilities of an alternative enhanced view of its bibliographic and authority records, based in FRBR as a reference model and Linked Open Data as a web-friendly publishing and exposure frame.
Digitalisierung Einige Uni-Büchereien geben ihre Katalogdaten frei, um neue Suchdienste zu ermöglichen. Von Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti, Stuttgarter Zeitung.