Bill Roberts on the Web of Data

The baroquely named Tetherless World Constallation group of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been translating datasets from data.gov into RDF. “The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the...

A couple of days ago Sigma was launched by DERI, the Galway institute that also brought us Sindice the semantic web search engine. Sigma describes itself as a “semantic information mashup” – it’s part aggregator and part browser, and makes heavy use of Sindice to get its information. So...

There has recently been a long discussion on the LOD mailing list about ways of implementing the content negotiation process described in How to Publish Linked Data on the Web. Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies from the W3C describes a way of doing it with Apache, but...

There’s a steadily growing list of linked data sets at linkeddata.org. I’m not planning to reproduce or compete with that list here, but rather once a month or so I’ll pick out recent or particularly interesting examples to highlight. This month: the BBC. Over the last year or two, the...

Further to the news the other day that Berners-Lee is advising the UK government on how to get more of its data online, Sir Tim has now published a straightforward how-to guide: Putting Government Data online. The message is very much: it’s not that hard, don’t worry about making it perfect,...

DERI’s Michael Hausenblas makes his predictions on which applications of linked data will grow fastest on the blog of the recently launched Linked Data Research Centre.. Michael predicts: enterprises, governments and individuals – which admittedly doesn’t leave many people out! But...

With the recently published Digital Britain report and now Gordon Brown appointing Sir TimBL as a special advisor, is the UK Government finally starting to see the interwebs as an opportunity for economic and social improvement, rather than just as something to control? Until recently, the...

More great stuff from the Semantic Technology 2009 conference, this time from Scott Brinker. Scott’s subject was “Marketing in the Semantic Web” (slides). Leading on from my post yesterday about the GoodRelations ontology, it emphasises that the time has come for the web of data to hit the...