This document discusses linking government data to the web. It introduces dcat, a vocabulary for describing government data catalogs in RDF. It also describes Gridworks, a desktop application for exploring and cleaning tabular data. The document proposes two extensions to Gridworks: 1) browsing dcat descriptions of data catalogs within Gridworks, and 2) exporting cleaned data from Gridworks in RDF format to publish as linked data. The extensions could help governments more easily publish their data as linked open data on the web.
Semantic MediaWiki - Knowledge Management and Open Data Use CasesBernhard Krabina
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a full-fledged, open source knowledge management system based on MediaWiki, the software used for Wikipedia. It enables wikis not only to manage textual information, but to define, store and retrieve data to be used inside the wiki (for querying, displaying, aggregating) as well as outside of the wiki. In can be used to produce Open Data, or to consume and re-use Open Data. Many Open Data initiatives lack the viewpoint of internal data monitoring, where SMW can play a vital part not only in identifying relevant datasets, but also in setting up procedures for identifying datasets to be published.
www.semantic-mediawiki.org
Using DBpedia for Thesaurus Management and Linked Open Data IntegrationMartin Kaltenböck
Using DBpedia for Thesaurus Creation and Management as well as Linked Open Data (LOD) Integration with PoolParty Semantic Suite (http://www.poolparty.biz) at Semantic Web Company (SWC, http://www.semantic-web.at).
Linking Knowledge Organization Systems via Wikidata (DCMI conference 2018)Joachim Neubert
Wikidata has been used sucessfully as a linking hub for authoritiy files. Knowledge organization systems like thesauri or classifications are more complex and pose additional challenges.
Powerful Information Discovery with Big Knowledge Graphs –The Offshore Leaks ...Connected Data World
Borislav Popov's slides from his lightning talk at Connected Data London. Borislav - a Director of Business Development at Ontotext presented Ontotext's approach to tackling the Panama Papers leak. Using a technology that is a mix between semantic web and graph databases.
Semantic MediaWiki - Knowledge Management and Open Data Use CasesBernhard Krabina
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a full-fledged, open source knowledge management system based on MediaWiki, the software used for Wikipedia. It enables wikis not only to manage textual information, but to define, store and retrieve data to be used inside the wiki (for querying, displaying, aggregating) as well as outside of the wiki. In can be used to produce Open Data, or to consume and re-use Open Data. Many Open Data initiatives lack the viewpoint of internal data monitoring, where SMW can play a vital part not only in identifying relevant datasets, but also in setting up procedures for identifying datasets to be published.
www.semantic-mediawiki.org
Using DBpedia for Thesaurus Management and Linked Open Data IntegrationMartin Kaltenböck
Using DBpedia for Thesaurus Creation and Management as well as Linked Open Data (LOD) Integration with PoolParty Semantic Suite (http://www.poolparty.biz) at Semantic Web Company (SWC, http://www.semantic-web.at).
Linking Knowledge Organization Systems via Wikidata (DCMI conference 2018)Joachim Neubert
Wikidata has been used sucessfully as a linking hub for authoritiy files. Knowledge organization systems like thesauri or classifications are more complex and pose additional challenges.
Powerful Information Discovery with Big Knowledge Graphs –The Offshore Leaks ...Connected Data World
Borislav Popov's slides from his lightning talk at Connected Data London. Borislav - a Director of Business Development at Ontotext presented Ontotext's approach to tackling the Panama Papers leak. Using a technology that is a mix between semantic web and graph databases.
A Scientist's Perspective on Open Access and Data Management by Leigh WinowieckiCIAT
The following is a presentation from CIAT's 2014 Annual Program Review in Cali, Colombia by Leigh Winowiecki a Soil Scientist, which debates the issue of scientific data, publishing through open access,and the crediting, sharing and reuse of data among scientists and the greater scientific community.
As a librarian, Regina Roberts' work centers on facilitating the research process by collecting, organizing, preserving and providing access to information resources. Roberts is deeply interested and engaged in finding ways to utilize institutional repositories for preserving and archiving news and the data supporting the production of news stories.
Presentation by M. Kaltenböck of Semantic Web Company given at the Linked Open Data MeetUp Mannheim on 23 February 2014 on: Semantic Information Management using PoolParty 4 - explaining PoolParty Semantic Suite with features and applications and real world use cases...
Timea Turdean's presentation from Connected Data London. Timea, who is a Technical Consultant at the Semantic Web Company presented their success stories using Connected Data.
Using the Semantic Web Stack to Make Big Data SmarterMatheus Mota
This presentation will discuss how just a few parts of the Semantic Web Cake can already boost your analytics by making your (big) data smarter and even more connected.
Linked Open Government Data and the Semantic WebJames Hendler
Linked data (Semantic Web) technology has been valuable in promoting govt transparency by allowing mashups of govt data in the US, UK and elsewhere. This talk overviews the promise, status and challenges in this space.
Project Description of the Linked Open Data (LOD) PILOT Austria - presented at the PiLOD event at VU Amsterdam (Netherlands) on 29.01. 2014 (see: http://www.pilod.nl/) by Martin Kaltenböck of Semantic Web Company.
OPEN KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM USE-CASES - TugaIT 2018Pedro Sousa
Many of Open Knowledge International’s projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, CKAN, is used by many of the world’s governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess.
CKAN is a tool for making open data websites. (Think of a content management system like WordPress – but for data, instead of pages and blog posts.) It helps you manage and publish collections of data. It is used by national and local governments, research institutions, and other organizations who collect a lot of data.
In this talk I’ll go over some use-cases of Open Knowledge Platform implementations by the Portuguese Government, the architectural features, the difficulties and different approaches to solve them.
Enabling re-use via CKAN: discoverability and interoperabilityIrina Bolychevsky
Talk at @OpenDataWeek in Marseille focused on how technology can power discoverability and interoperability and why they are important. Showcases CKAN's search and discovery functionality, harvesting abilities and data catalog interoperability protocol.
Talk given by prof. Amit Sheth at the ICMSE-MGI Digital Data Workshop held at Kno.e.sis Center from November 13-14 2013.
workshop page: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/ICMSE-MGI_Digital_Data_Workshop
A Scientist's Perspective on Open Access and Data Management by Leigh WinowieckiCIAT
The following is a presentation from CIAT's 2014 Annual Program Review in Cali, Colombia by Leigh Winowiecki a Soil Scientist, which debates the issue of scientific data, publishing through open access,and the crediting, sharing and reuse of data among scientists and the greater scientific community.
As a librarian, Regina Roberts' work centers on facilitating the research process by collecting, organizing, preserving and providing access to information resources. Roberts is deeply interested and engaged in finding ways to utilize institutional repositories for preserving and archiving news and the data supporting the production of news stories.
Presentation by M. Kaltenböck of Semantic Web Company given at the Linked Open Data MeetUp Mannheim on 23 February 2014 on: Semantic Information Management using PoolParty 4 - explaining PoolParty Semantic Suite with features and applications and real world use cases...
Timea Turdean's presentation from Connected Data London. Timea, who is a Technical Consultant at the Semantic Web Company presented their success stories using Connected Data.
Using the Semantic Web Stack to Make Big Data SmarterMatheus Mota
This presentation will discuss how just a few parts of the Semantic Web Cake can already boost your analytics by making your (big) data smarter and even more connected.
Linked Open Government Data and the Semantic WebJames Hendler
Linked data (Semantic Web) technology has been valuable in promoting govt transparency by allowing mashups of govt data in the US, UK and elsewhere. This talk overviews the promise, status and challenges in this space.
Project Description of the Linked Open Data (LOD) PILOT Austria - presented at the PiLOD event at VU Amsterdam (Netherlands) on 29.01. 2014 (see: http://www.pilod.nl/) by Martin Kaltenböck of Semantic Web Company.
OPEN KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM USE-CASES - TugaIT 2018Pedro Sousa
Many of Open Knowledge International’s projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, CKAN, is used by many of the world’s governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess.
CKAN is a tool for making open data websites. (Think of a content management system like WordPress – but for data, instead of pages and blog posts.) It helps you manage and publish collections of data. It is used by national and local governments, research institutions, and other organizations who collect a lot of data.
In this talk I’ll go over some use-cases of Open Knowledge Platform implementations by the Portuguese Government, the architectural features, the difficulties and different approaches to solve them.
Enabling re-use via CKAN: discoverability and interoperabilityIrina Bolychevsky
Talk at @OpenDataWeek in Marseille focused on how technology can power discoverability and interoperability and why they are important. Showcases CKAN's search and discovery functionality, harvesting abilities and data catalog interoperability protocol.
Talk given by prof. Amit Sheth at the ICMSE-MGI Digital Data Workshop held at Kno.e.sis Center from November 13-14 2013.
workshop page: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/ICMSE-MGI_Digital_Data_Workshop
Reproducibility, argument and data in translational medicineTim Clark
Failures in reproducibility and robustness of scientific findings are explored from statistical, historical, and argumentation theory perspectives. The impact of false positives in the literature is connected to failures in T1 and T2 biomedical translation, and is shown to have a significant impact on the costs of therapeutic development and availability of needed treatments to the public. Technological and social approaches to resolve these issues are presented. "Reproducibility" initiatives are critiqued as unsustainable and non-authoritative; improved requirements and methods for scientific communication of findings including data, methods and material are supported as the best approaches for improved reproducibility.
Annotopia open annotation services platformTim Clark
Annotopia is an open-access, open-source, open annotation services platform developed for scientific annotation of documents and datasets on the web using the W3C Open Annotation model http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/.
Using Annotopia, virtually any client application including lightweight web clients, can create, selectively share, and access annotation of web documents and data. This can be done regardless of the ownership of the base objects being annotated.
Annotopia supports unstructured, semi-structured and fully-structured (semantic) annotation; manual and automated (textmining) annotation; permissions, groups, and sharing. It also provides access to specialized vocabulary and text analytics services.
Annotopia is an open source platform licensed under Apache 2.0.
exFrame: a Semantic Web Platform for Genomics ExperimentsTim Clark
slides from talk given at Bio-ontologies 2013, Berlin DE, 20 July 2013
Emily Merrill*, Stephane Corlosquet*, Paolo Ciccarese†*, Tim Clark*†‡, Sudeshna Das†*
* Massachusetts General Hospital
† Harvard Medical School
‡ School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Fairport domain specific metadata using w3 c dcat & skos w ontology viewsTim Clark
FAIRPORT is an international project to develop a lightweight interoperability architecture for biomedical - and potentially other - data repositories.
This slide deck is a presentation to the FAIRPORT technical team. It describes a proposed model for supporting domain-specific search metadata using a common schema model across all repositories.
The proposal makes use of the following existing technologies, with minor extensions:
- the W3C DCAT model for dataset description
- the W3C SKOS knowledge organization system
- OWL2 Ontology Language
- Dublin Core Vocabulary
- NCBO Bioportal biomedical ontologies collection
There are high expectations for Linked Government Data—the practice of publishing public sector information on the Web using Linked Data formats. This slideset reviews some of the ongoing work in the US, UK, and within W3C, as well as activities within my institute (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway).
An introduction to linked data (semantic web) for a Knowledge and Information Network (KIN) webinar. The presentation shows some examples of linked data in action, data visualization, difference between open and linked data and how linkd data is being used in UK gov and local gov.
Keynote talk at 2011 Semantic Technology and Business conference - Washington DC, November 30, 2011. This updates my earlier slideshare talk on linked open govt data - new slides from slide 17 on.
Delivering on Standards for Publishing Government Linked Data3 Round Stones
Progress report on publishing open government data using Open Web Standards. Delivered by Bernadette Hyland, co-chair W3C Government Linked Data Working Group at the European Data Forum 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
dcat: An RDF vocabulary for interoperability of data cataloguesRichard Cyganiak
Governments produce large amounts of valuable data, such as spreadsheets and maps, as part of daily operations and decision-making. This data can be useful to many citizens and organizations beyond the government, and it is ultimately the citizen who has paid for producing it. More and more governments make this data publicly available through data catalogs, such as data.gov, data.gov.uk, or statcentral.ie. This slide set introduces dcat, a unified format for publishing the metadata of such catalogs, that supports the querying, federation, consumption and archival of these valuable data assets.
Open Data for Financial Innovations in the Developing WorldBiplav Srivastava
Financial innovations are key to getting developing countries like India their rightful role in the global economy. However, such innovations depend on data, advanced analytics and timely access to insights. In this talk, we will discuss open data collected by governments and people and how it can bootstrap innovations that matter. Open data helps not only overcome initial data bottleneck but also helps standardize solutions for scalability and wider adoption.
Basic introductory talk about the Web of Linked Data, given to undergraduate and posgraduate students of Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) in September 2010. Knowledge about Semantic Web is required
Putting the L in front: from Open Data to Linked Open DataMartin Kaltenböck
Keynote presentation of Martin Kaltenböck (LOD2 project, Semantic Web Company) at the Government Linked Data Workshop in the course of the OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw, Poland: Putting the L in front: from Open Data to Linked Open Data
The goal of the Semantic Web is
to create a universal medium for the exchange of DATA.
The Data Web envisions the web as a world-wide interlinked structured data.
Semantic Web technologies (such as RDF and SPARQL) excel at bringing together diverse data in a world of independent data publishers and consumers. Common ontologies help to arrive at a shared understanding of the intended meaning of data.
However, they don’t address one critically important issue: What does it mean for data to be complete and/or valid? Semantic knowledge graphs without a shared notion of completeness and validity quickly turn into a Big Ball of Data Mud.
The Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL), an upcoming W3C standard, promises to help solve this problem. By keeping semantics separate from validity, SHACL makes it possible to resolve a slew of data quality and data exchange issues.
Presented at the Lotico Berlin Semantic Web Meetup.
The RDF Working Group at W3C has been busy with an update to the RDF standards, and this work is now nearing its end. Here I summarise what's new, what's been controversial, and also give a very brief intro to the RDF data model.
Practical Cross-Dataset Queries with SPARQL (Introduction)Richard Cyganiak
Introduction slide deck for the tutorial on “Practical Cross-Dataset Queries for the Web of Data” we presented at WWW2012. The tutorial homepage, including other presentations, is here: http://latc-project.eu/events/www2012-tutorial-cross-dataset-queries
Sigma EE: Reaping low-hanging fruits in RDF-based data integrationRichard Cyganiak
A presentation I gave at I-Semantics 2010 on Sigma EE, an RDF-based data integration front-end.
Sigma EE is now available for download here: http://sig.ma/?page=help
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Self-Service Linked Government Data with dcat and Gridworks
1. Self-Service Linked Government Data with dcat and Gridworks FadiMaali, Richard Cyganiak, VassiliosPeristeras Triplification Challenge 2010 at I-Semantics, Graz
14. dcat at W3C dcat Task Force Part of W3C eGovernment Interest Group http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Data_Catalog_Vocabulary
15. Four catalogs in SPARQL http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/govcat/ US, Australia, London, SF
16. Gridworks Made by David Huynh at Metaweb (now Google) Explore, clean up and improve tabular data Desktop app http://code.google.com/p/freebase-gridworks/
24. Summary dcat RDF vocabulary for government data catalogs W3C eGovernment Interest Group Gridworks Great workbench for tabular data Extensible! RDF export for Gridworks http://bit.ly/gridworks-rdf