Bill Roberts on the Web of Data

Over at Swirrl, we’ve just started a new blog called ‘Learn Linked Data’. We’re aiming to pull together useful and practical information about both creating and using Linked Data. Our main focus will be linked data ‘beginners’: people who already know a bit...

PublishMyData, our Linked Data publishing platform, has been live for half a day now and nothing has broken yet, so we’re calling Day 1 a success :-) It’s also been great to get some positive feedback from the twittersphere. There’s a long way to go with the product, but...

We’ve been experimenting recently with a few different triple stores. My colleague Ric has written up some step-by-step notes on installing Joseki and TDB on Mac or Linux that some of you might find useful. There is pretty good documentation at the Jena Sourceforge site but Ric’s...

The Scottish Government is now publishing monthly reports of all items of expenditure over £25,000. That’s great and a positive step towards transparency and open data. But can we have them as CSV files? or even Excel? Currently they are only available as PDF which makes it a pain to do...

I think we need to establish a common practice to link RDF datasets and named graphs. I’ve been working recently on discovery of linked data: how people can find out easily what is available and how they can use it, either directly or by building it into new applications. The dataset is...

I’ve been at a couple of great Web of Data events in the last ten days or so. On 13 July, I organised a Linked Data meetup in Edinburgh that I’m pleased to say went very well. Around 25 people showed up to hear interesting talks from Zach Beauvais of Talis (slides) and Paola di Maio...

We’re in the very early days of the UK government’s new approach to open data. While it seems to be going in the right direction and progress has in many respects been remarkably quick (eg this recent announcement on public sector transparency), clearly we still have a lot to learn...

You can now register for the Scottish Linked Data Interest Group meetup on 13 July. The event is free but places are limited and there has already been a great reaction, so if you’d like to come please do sign up.