Linked Data and URIs

Linked DataUK Government Linked Data Working Group (UKGovLD)

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Alexander Coley @alexrcoley

UKGovLD

Open Standardsreducing lock-in, enabling for new innovation

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Open GovernmentDigital, Transparency and the National Information Infrastructure

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Identifying thingsreferring to those things and persistence

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Location & Observationslinking to packages of information

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Data as part of the Webrather than just on the web

map of the internet

Flexible data architecturereusable components, not in a silo, small iterative improvements

lego blocks played with by Freya

Connective Reference Datadata that enables inter-connections

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RDF and APIsLinked Data is not a format

there does not have to be (there is not) one way

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Linked Data in the UKa lot of work

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UK GovernmentStandards Departments and Agencies Devolved Administrations Trading Funds

EuropeINSPIRE EEA and JRC Copernicus ISA

ResearchNERC

JISC/Edina Universities

Private SectorLinked Data SMEs

Finance & Medical Sectors Search & Social

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Opportunitiesfor the space & earth observation community

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Enabling change “build the right technology, using modern methods & approaches, or to employ agile computing firms that regard £100k as a lot of money & that

are accustomed to delivering on time”

Frameworks into rich datasupporting the “big data” thing

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URIs & RegistriesStandards & Technologies

Some Existing ProjectsINSPIRE EIONET Copernicus ISA W3C/OGC Collaboration !

etcmap of the internet

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Where next?

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Alexander Coley @alexrcoley [email protected]

Westminster by alexrcoley

standards.data.gov.uk/challenge/persistent-resolvable-identifiers

data.gov.uk/linked-data/ukgovld

www.gov.uk/service-manual

www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data

www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases

References

github.com/organizations/UKGovLD

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