The Linked Data Journey - Observations of a fellow traveller

The Linked Data Journey
Observations of a fellow traveller

Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
Talis
richard.wallis@talis.com
@rjw

Tuesday, 14 September 2010


Started some time ago...
Library of Congress: Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collection


Web


The Web of Documents


The Web of Documents
A global network of linked documents

A place where anyone can say anything about
anything

A vast collection of human-readable knowledge
(and opinion)

Documents are linked, but links are not qualiﬁed


Network of Linked Documents

unqualiﬁed links


Network of Linked Documents

unqualiﬁed links

no such thing as a negative link

Semantic Web


2001 - 2007


2001 - 2007

Semantic Web Research

Standards Building
RDF SPARQL

Linked Data

http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/13/tim_berners_lee_web/


The Web of Data
A global network of linked statements

A place where anyone can say anything about
anything

A vast collection of machine-readable knowledge
(and opinion)

Statements are linked, and links are qualiﬁed


Semantic Web
Mark
Fischetti
Author Published by

Harper
Tim Author
Weaving Paperbacks
Berners-Lee
the Web

Sold by

Amazon.com


Linked Data
Mark
Fischetti
Author Published by

Harper
Tim Author
Weaving Paperbacks
Berners-Lee
the Web

Sold by

Amazon.com


Governments


Media

Guardian
NYT
BBC


Media

Media

Guardian
NYT
BBC


Initial BBC Data Publishing


• BBC Backstage team - Outward looking


• Publish Music & Programme data as RDF/SPARQL


• “Test the Water” — who/how — used/reused


• “Test the Water” — who/how — used/reused
• Talis support
–Crawling / Harvesting
–RDF Triple Stores
–Open access APIs / SPARQL
–Demonstrations


BBC Wildlife Finder


BBC Wildlife Finder
• Stunning BBC Video & Audio


BBC Wildlife Finder
• Rich content from other sources


BBC Wildlife Finder
– DBPedia — Animal Diversity Web — Arkive — IUCN Red List


BBC Wildlife Finder
• Linked Data Principles Add your value - link to others


BBC Wildlife Finder
- Description text maintained in Wikipedia


BBC Wildlife Finder
• Linked Data Practice
- Embed links


BBC Wildlife Finder
- Embed links
- Publish RDF


BBC Wildlife Finder
- Embed links
- Publish RDF
• Follow-your-nose navigation


BBC Wildlife Finder
- Embed links
- Publish RDF
• Follow-your-nose navigation
• SEO Goodness!

Other Examples

Media

Guardian
NYT
BBC


So how do I do it!


So how do I do it!

One Step
at a time


Step One


Step One
Get your data out

for others
to consume and share


... by ‘data’ I mean ...


Metadata - about your data


Categories/Ontologies


Subject headings


Subject headings
Links to assets


Subject headings
Permanent Links to assets


Step Two


Step Two
Get your data in

to an open linkable
standard format


open linkable standard
format


format

URIs for identiﬁers
http://example.com/asset/12345


format

URIs for identiﬁers
http://example.com/asset/12345

Wrapped in RDF


Step Three


Step Three
Link it all about!

weave it in to the web
of data


of data


of data

New Author Wikipedia
York Times Same As Same As
Person
Topic


of data
Person
Topic

Disease Associated Gene Gene
Symbol Symbol
disease


of data
Person
Topic

Symbol Symbol
disease

Add value to your/other sites/data


of data
Person
Topic

Symbol Symbol
disease

Create serendipitous connections


of data
Person
Topic

Symbol Symbol
disease

Create serendipitous connections
Lead people to your resources

The
Data Publishing
Three-Step


The
Data Publishing
Three-Step

Get your data out
for others to share


The
Data Publishing
Three-Step

Get your data out
for others to share

Get your data in
to linkable standard format


The
Data Publishing
Three-Step

Get your data out
for others to share

Get your data in
to RDF


The
Data Publishing
Three-Step

Get your data out
for others to share

Get your data in
to RDF

Link it all about
the web of data

Help with all this?

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Help with all this?
Community Groups
Linked Data Meetups
Open Source



Help with all this?
Community Groups
Linked Data Meetups
Open Source

Nodalities



Help with all this?
Community Groups
Linked Data Meetups
Open Source

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Help with all this?
Community Groups
Linked Data Meetups
Open Source

Nodalities

Events
Training Courses
Mentoring
Consultancy
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Still early days


Still early days
Many fellow travellers


Still early days
Learn from others


Still early days
Learn from others
Try it ﬁrst


Still early days
Learn from others
Try it ﬁrst
One step at a time


Still early days
Learn from others
Try it ﬁrst
One step at a time
Open World Thinking


Still early days
Learn from others
Try it ﬁrst
One step at a time
Open World Thinking
Visualisation gets the message over


Still early days
Learn from others
Try it ﬁrst
One step at a time
Open World Thinking
Potential is enormous


Still early days
Learn from others
Try it ﬁrst
One step at a time
Open World Thinking
Potential is enormous
Help available

Richard Wallis
Talis
@rjw


Richard Wallis
Talis
@rjw

www.slideshare.net/rjw


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