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Photo: flickr: dullhunk
Catching up with Matthew Brown
Structured Data SMX Advanced 2012

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Matthew Brown
Slideshare: MatthewBrownPDX
Twitter: @MatthewJBrown
matthew@audiencewise.com
http://www.portlandground.com/archives/2003/05/steel_bridge_an.php

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Structured Data = Data organized by a hierarchy or schema.
Can be organized and searched.
Linked Data = Publishing structured data so it can be accessed
at a URI.
Semantic Web = The web of globally accessible, interlinked
data.
Linked Open Data = A cloud of linked data sites that promote
open standards and linking to one another
Basic Overview of what the ‘semantic web’ is

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So where are the search engines at with
the semantic web?
@MatthewJbrown

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Google Knowledge Graph = Nothing New. More emphasis.

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Image: Thos003
Bing has less semantic search results, but has deals with
both Twitter and Facebook

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Don’t sleep on Facebook. They’ve got a huge open graph of
data

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Open
Graph
Schema
Protip: Use Open Graph Markup in addition to schema, etc.

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Structured Data Tools
@MatthewJbrown

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Schema Creator from Raven: http://schema-creator.org/

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Local Business Microdata Generator: http://microdatagenerator.org/

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Rich Snippets Bookmarklet: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/rich-
snippets-testing-tool-bookmarklet

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Bing Webmaster Tools Markup Validator

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http://linter.structured-data.org – Industrial Strength
Structured Data Display

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Sindice.com – Semantic web search engine. Good way to see what

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Also be on the lookout for new proposed data schemas

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Semantic Tech and Linked Data – Why
should I care?
@MatthewJbrown

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JUST MAKE GREAT CONTENT!!!111
Semantic Data can create unique content in all sorts of ways

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Zip Codes from
Data.gov
List of College Towns
from dbpedia
Jay Myers (@jaymyers) of Best Buy advocates semantic data to
improve customer experience. (example is mine).

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BBC and the 2012 Olympics:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/sports_dynamic_semantic.html

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Point Blank SEO’s guide to data visualizations:
http://pointblankseo.com/visualizations

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Getting started with semantic tech
@MatthewJbrown

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http://www.seoskeptic.com/seo-semantic-web/
Great overview of the Semantic Web here
Linked Data is stored in RDF. These are called ‘triples.’

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http://www.amazon.com/Learning-SPARQL-Bob-DuCharme/dp/1449306594
SPARQL is the query language for RDF data

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http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/lod-datasets_2011-09-19_colored.html - Linking Open

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http://www.kasabi.com- Data Marketplace for using and publishing linked data

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Example of how to use a food-related SPARQL query on a Kasabi dataset

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Many APIs are available on Kasabi, for ease of use with some datasets

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No Data Format specified yet, but
it’ll probably have a SPARQL
endpoint
Be on the lookout for new linked datasets

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Drupal has functionality to consume and publish RDF data. Guide to getting up and running at:
http://semantic-drupal.com/

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LODSPeaKr – Simple Publishing Kit for Linked Data -
http://alangrafu.github.com/lodspeakr/

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Example of a LODSPeaKr application pulling Farmer’s Market data
and city information (Hi Rhea!)

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Add Semantic Tech to your SEO diet
@MatthewJbrown

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuAaa6lZxAU
http://justinbriggs.org/entity-search-results-the-on-going-evolution-of-search
Learn what entities are.

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Reading List
http://learnlinkeddata.com/articles Linked Data Primer – Start Here
http://semanticweb.com/introduction-to-rdf_b17953 - Dead simple intro to RDF and
associated vocabularies and tools. SemanticWeb.com rules.
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0607-SemTech-RDFa-IH/Talk.pdf
Great intro to RDFa and highlights Best Buy, Overstock, Examiner.com
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-disprdf/index.html
IBM Developer Works tutorial on how to combine data
http://searchnewscentral.com/20110207129/Technical/rdfa-the-inside-story-from-best-
buy.html
Interview with Jay Myers, Lead Development Engineer for Best Buy
There’s a ton of resources on the web to get you started

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Follow List
Folks who have some SEO/Semantic Web crossover:
Aaron Bradley - @aaranged – Hands down the best curator of semantic
happenings on the SEO side. When he blogs at
http://www.seoskeptic.com it’s not to be missed.
Jeff Preston - @JeffreyPreston – Lead SEO at Disney Corp. Happens to
be speaking at the Semantic Web 2012 conference
Sean Golliher - @SeanGolliher – Publisher of SEMJ – writes occasionally
for http://www.semanticweb.com
Jay Myers - @jaymyers – Best Buy lead dev and RDFa proponent. He’s
the man responsible for Best Buy’s 30% CTR increase with rich snippets.
Dan Brickley - @DanBri – Schema.org outreach for Google, works on
proposed Schema.org specs
These Folks Pay Attention to the Semantic Web

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Warning: Your head might explode
Semantic Tech Folks who are very smart and say things I don’t get:
Martin Hepp- @MFHepp– Heads up Good Relations, which is the most
extensive ontology for e-commerce data
Manu Sporny - @ManuSporny – Leader of the W3C working group for
RDF. The man leading the charge for the RDF spec.
Lin Clark - @LinClark – Works on the linked data/RDF integration for
Drupal. Codes neat linked data things for Drupal.
Gregg Kellogg - @Gkellogg – Semantic Web Developer of all trades.
Wrote the Structured Data Linter.
Aaron Bradley’s Semantic Web100 Twitter Group:
https://twitter.com/#!/SemanticWeb/semanticweb100 - Like tapping
into the Matrix of semantic tech information.
Prepare to understand 15% of what they say

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Thank you!
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matthew@audiencewise.com
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