This post was originally published on the Kasabi product blog. Attending SemTech 2011 last week I was struck by a shift in emphasis from "What If?" to "Here's How". I think there were more people sharing their experiences, technical & business approaches, and general war stories than on previous years. I think this reflects both the extent … Continue reading SemTech Thoughts
Category: Semantic Web
RDF Data Access Options, or Isn’t HTTP already the API?
This is a follow-up to my blog post from yesterday about RDF and JSON. Ed Summers tweeted to say: ...your blog post suggests that an API for linked data is needed; isn't http already the API? I couldn't answer that in 140 characters, so am writing this post to elaborate a little on the last … Continue reading RDF Data Access Options, or Isn’t HTTP already the API?
RDF and JSON: A Clash of Model and Syntax
I had been meaning to write this post for some time. After reading Jeni Tennison's post from earlier this week I had decided that I didn't need too, but Jeni and Thomas Roessler suggested I publish my thoughts. So here they are. I've got more things to say about where efforts should be expended in … Continue reading RDF and JSON: A Clash of Model and Syntax
Gridworks Reconciliation API Implementation
Gridworks is a really fantastic tool and there's scope to extend it in all kinds of interesting ways. Jeni Tennison has recently published a great blog post describing how to use Gridworks for generating Linked Data. I strongly encourage you to read her posting as it not only provides a good introduction to Gridworks itself, … Continue reading Gridworks Reconciliation API Implementation
RDF Dataset Notifications
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
Linked Data Patterns: a free book for practitioners
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
A Tour of the OS 50k Gazetteer Linked Data
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
Enhanced Descriptions: “Premium Linked Data”
I've had several conversations recently with people who are either interested in, or actually implementing Linked Data, and are struggling with some important questions How much data should I give away? If I wanted to charge for more than just the basic data, then how would I handle that? My usual response to the first … Continue reading Enhanced Descriptions: “Premium Linked Data”
Predicate Based Services
sameAs.org is a great service on a number of different levels. It provides a much needed piece of Semantic Web infrastructure and it achieves that through a simple clean interface and API. You don't even need to know anything about RDF to get value from the service. In short it's one of those nice web … Continue reading Predicate Based Services
Thoughts on Linked Data Business Models
Scott Brinker recently published a great blog post covering 7 business models for Linked Data. The post is well worth a read and reviews the potential for both direct and indirect revenue generation from a range of different business models. I've been thinking about these same issues myself recently so I'm pleased to see that … Continue reading Thoughts on Linked Data Business Models
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