Last Friday I spoke at the Open Knowledge Foundation Open Data & The Semantic Web event. I was giving the opening talk of the day and thought that I'd take the opportunity to lay out a view that I've been meaning to articulate for some time: that integrating data with the web maximises its utility. … Continue reading Web Integrated Data
Month: November 2009
Linked Data Liminal Zones
One of the things that has interested me for some time now is how RDF and Linked Data enables communities to enrich information published by organizations, e.g. by annotating it with additional properties and relationships (links). This is after all, one of the intended goals of the technology: to make it easier for people to … Continue reading Linked Data Liminal Zones
DataIncubator: What Is It and What’s In It?
This article first appeared in Talis Nodalities magazine issue 8. The Linking Open Data project has had a huge amount of success in bootstrapping the burgeoning Linked Data cloud. There’s now a definite sense of momentum behind the project, and a growing number of organisations are now seriously investigating how their data could further enrich … Continue reading DataIncubator: What Is It and What’s In It?
Describing SPARQL Extension Functions
At the end of my recent post on Surveying and Classifying SPARQL Extensions I noted that I wanted to help encourage implementors to publish useful documentation about their SPARQL Extensions. If you're interested in the current state of that survey then you can check out my current spreadsheet listing known extension functions. There are more … Continue reading Describing SPARQL Extension Functions
Managing RDF Using Named Graphs
In this post I want to put down some thoughts around using named graphs to manage and query RDF datasets. This thinking is prompted is in large part by thinking how best to use Named Graphs to support publishing of Linked Data, but also most recently by the first Working Drafts drafts of SPARQL 1.1. … Continue reading Managing RDF Using Named Graphs
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