Like many people in the RDF community I've been thinking about the issue of syndicating updates to RDF datasets. If we want to support truly distributed aggregation and processing of data then we need an efficient way to share updates. There's been a lot of experimentation around different mechanisms, and PubSubHubbub seems to be a … Continue reading RDF Dataset Notifications →

A few months ago Ian Davis and I were chatting about some new approaches to helping practitioners climb the learning curve around Linked Data, RDF and related technologies. We were both keen to help communicate the value of Linked Data, share knowledge amongst practitioners, and to encourage the community to converge on best practices. We … Continue reading Linked Data Patterns: a free book for practitioners →

The Ordnance Survey have today published the first in a series of open datasets. In addition to the administrative geography that was published last year, the Linked Data available from data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk now includes data from their 1:50 000 Scale Gazetteer. In this blog post I thought I'd post an overview of the dataset to summarise … Continue reading A Tour of the OS 50k Gazetteer Linked Data →