Bill Roberts on the Web of Data

The first meeting will be at 7pm on Tuesday 13 July at the Outhouse in Edinburgh. I’ll set up an Eventbrite page for registration in the next few days and put together some more details about the event, but please put the date in your diary if you are interested. Also, we’re on the...

At the recent Open Knowledge Scotland meeting, Paola di Maio suggested setting up a Scottish interest group on linked data. Jeff Pan and I agreed with her and we decided to give it a try. I’ve volunteered to organise the first meeting. We know that there’s a lot of interesting work...

At Swirrl we’re working on a new platform for publishing Linked Data. (It’s called PublishMyData). It’s still at an early stage and we’d like to test our ideas against the constraints and objectives of the people who we hope might make use of it. A good example of what we...

Tim Berners-Lee recently gave a short talk to TED, reporting back on a year of great progress since his 2009 cry of “Raw Data Now”. One of the big contributors to this has been the UK government via the data.gov.uk initiative, which I’m sure all readers of this blog are well...

Sorry for introducing lots of articles into your feed reader. After moving this blog over to its new platform, we had a few problems with the feed caching system, which meant that articles from Ric’s blog (ricroberts.com) found their way into my feed. The problem is now fixed, so we should...

I’ve just moved this blog over to a new platform: SemanticJournal, written mainly by Ric Roberts, my Swirrl co-founder (with a little bit of help from me here and there). The platform automatically generates and inserts RDFa markup describing the blog and each post. So far, this is rather...

Via Nathan Yau’s Flowing Data blog, I came across this fascinating visualisation of Netflix data, published in the New York Times. It shows the top 50 most rented Netflix movies, zip code by zip code for several US cities. It’s very nicely done and it’s very engaging. It made me think of...

Martin Hepp’s work in creating, promoting and implementing the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce reached another milestone this week, with the first concrete indications that including RDFa metadata in your page will improve its ranking on Google. Martin and others have been talking...