Bill Roberts on the Web of Data

I’ve been involved in a couple of discussions in the last few days about speed of access to Linked Data and whether that will limit what can be done with it. This was kicked off by some questions on Twitter by Greg Boutin. Greg was particularly interested in queries on distributed data,...

A few weeks ago I asked on this blog “What makes good linked data?”. A recent blog post by Mike Bergman and Frédérick Giasson really helps to get to the heart of this question. If you are interested in how to use linked data effectively you should definitely read Mike and Fred’s article. ...

This interesting question was asked yesterday by Stuart Myles on Semantic Overflow. I spent a fair bit of time trying to answer it, so I thought I would repost my thoughts here. Stuart’s call to arms was “Convince me (and others) to join the Linked Data cloud. Sell me on the...

Readers of this blog probably take it for granted that publishing more linked data is a Good Thing. Linked data should follow the established design principles, but that still leaves many ways to represent your data as RDF. Which is the ‘best’ way? How do we decide if our approach is good...

Yesterday Jim Hendler’s post “It’s just a matter of semantics” post was published by the CNN Brainstorm Tech blog. As Hendler said on Twitter, it was “edited in odd ways but not totally butchered”. A few weeks back ReadWriteWeb identified structured data (with semantic web at the core of...

OpenPSI is a new project set up recently by the University of Southampton and the UK government Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI). Thanks to John Darlington of Southampton Uni School of Electronics and Computer Science for bringing it to my attention. OpenPSI aims both to assist...

Tables of data are a common feature of reports and blogs, so they represent an important use case for getting RDF online. The simplest and most commonly used approach is to assign a URI to each row in the table. That URI forms the subject of a set of triples, with the column name as...

In a happy coincidence, in Paul Miller’s latest podcast (released today), his guests are Jim Hendler and Li Ding from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jim and Li explain the background and their thinking on the process of creating RDF versions of the data.gov datasets, that I wrote...