This document summarizes a presentation about transforming the web together through open data and standards. It discusses the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its role in developing open web standards. It provides examples of linked open data projects including data.gov and mashups of government data. Specific open data portals for cities like Chicago are highlighted. Semantic web technologies like RDF, RDFa, and SPARQL are referenced as working groups at W3C. Links are included to further resources on linked open data basics and news portals. The presentation concludes with mentioning Peter Mika from Yahoo discussing open data.

1. KESW 2012
Hackathon
Daniel Hladky, NRU HSE/W3C Russia
Future Web
Tranforming the
Web together
October, 6, 2012

2. World Wide Web Consortium
• More than 350 Members (only 3 from Russia)
• Web ecosystem: users, developers, browsers, etc.
• Staff in US (MIT), France (ERCIM) and Japan (Keio)
• W3C Russia Office hosted by HSE
• Open Standards, Royalty Free
W3C Core Team (67 people)

3. The LOD
~30 bio. triples
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4. 5 Star Pyramid of Open Data
http://5stardata.info/ (Dr M. Hausenblas, DERI)
See also:Christopher Gutteridge has a Linked Data crash course for programmers.
http://openorg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/Linked_Data_Basics_for_Techies
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5. Data.gov (Open Data Sets) and Mashups
Civic Commons has a great collection of good open use cases:
http://civiccommons.org/
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6. Where my money goes (Greece)
http://publicspending.medialab.ntua.gr/en/#/~/total
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46182458/2012-06-19%20ps.gr%20BRU.pdf
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7. E.g. Chicago -
https://data.cityofchicago.org/
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8. Example & References
Working Groups (W3C Standards)
(http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data)
- RDF, RDFa, SPARQL, RDB2RDF, OWL, RIF, SKOS
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/ontos-news-portal
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzulsw3zu9eyff2/LOD_Test.zip
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9. DR PETER MIKA
YAHOO!
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