This year’s Semantic Technology conference is overflowing with good ideas and new developments in the web of data. One big application of the semantic web is going to be connecting buyers and sellers more precisely. Although comparison shopping sites are already everywhere on the web, it...
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A few days ago Ian Millard and Hugh Glaser of Southampton University announced the release of <sameAs>. If you enter a URI it returns other URIs that refer to the same thing. It’s a simple concept but a very useful building block for the web of data. In RDF, everything gets a unique...
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Welcome to my blog on the web of data. I’ll be writing about the Semantic Web and Linked Data, but my interpretation of ‘web of data’ is a broad one: interconnected data accessed through the internet, in a form that both people and machines can read and explore. These are the main points I...
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Hi, I'm Bill Roberts. This blog is about how and why you should publish data on the web, in a way that lets machines read it as well as people. So I'm going to be talking a lot about the semantic web and linked data.
Day job
I'm the co-founder of Swirrl. We provide web-native tools for managing and sharing information, as well as consultancy on applying semantic web technologies.
PublishMyData is our main project at Swirrl at the moment: it's a publishing platform for Linked Data.