LOD2 Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

Thanks to high-profile initiatives in the U.S. and UK, the government domain has emerged as the most promising and dynamic application area for Semantic Web technologies. With this tutorial we give an overview on the landscape of existing governmental data activities, share experience on organisational and policy issues concerning governmental data, and show how a number of eGovernment specific use cases can be addressed using Linked Data technologies. This tutorial equips 2010 with the necessary knowledge, and it raises awareness of the technical and the non-technical issues involved.

Programme

1. Invited speaker: Prof. Jim Hendler on ‘Raw Government Data Now!’
2. The Linked Government Data Landscape Today
   1. data.gov.uk
   2. data.gov and the data-gov project at RPI
   3. W3C activities
3. Linked Data 101
   1. URIs – Global Identifiers
   2. RDF and the Web
   3. The role of vocabularies
4. Lessons learned on organisational and policy issues
5. Specific technologies
   1. Making government data discoverable with dcat and voiD
   2. Publishing official statistics with SDMX-RDF
   3. Reaching the citizen developer: the Linked Data API
   4. Creating compelling visualisations and demos
6. Invited speaker: Sandro Hawke (W3C)

Organiser

Michael Hausenblas (http://sw-app.org/about.html) is a postdoctoral researcher at DERI and the co-ordinator of the Linked Data Research Centre. He has been involved in several international research projects since 2001, and has contributed to the Web of Linked Data in various domains: from the RDFa standardisation, over the creation of the voiD vocabulary and Dataset Dynamics, to chairing the W3C RDB2DF Working Group. He gave tutorials on Linked Data applications at the World Wide Web Conference 2009, and on RDFa as well as on Linked Data at the International Semantic Web Conference 2008.

Li Ding (http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/) is a research scientist in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is the technical leader of the Data-gov project at RPI, which is generating Linked Government Data from US data.gov data and publishes many mashups and demos that make use of Linked Government Data. He is also known as the founder of Swoogle, one of the first semantic web search engines on the Web. He is an active researcher in the Semantic Web community and has served as organizer and program committee member for major conferences such as WWW, ISWC and CIKM, and many other international workshops.

Rob Styles (http://dynamicorange.com/) is an Internet technologist working for Software and Semantic Web company Talis. As Programme Manager, Data Services, Rob has been working for Talis since 2004, focusing on the large databases that Talis has been involved with for more than 30 years, Talis Base best known amongst them. Rob also has a keen interest in intellectual property law, helping Talis with its work on the Open Data Commons licenses. Prior to working at Talis Rob was involved in the successful internet bank, Egg and with other award-winning financial services sites. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Hull. He has extensive experience in outreach and evangelisation concerning Linked Data in the governmental domain and gave several tutorials in this area.

Richard Cyganiak (http://richard.cyganiak.de/) is a researcher at DERI’s Linked Data Research Centre. He is a co-founder of the Linking Open Data initiative, chair of the Data Catalog Vocabulary (dcat) project in the W3C’s eGovernment Interest Group, contributor to the SDMX-RDF proposed standard for publishing official statistics as Linked Data, and creator of a number of Linked Data related software projects. Richard is a fellow of the Web Science Research Initiative. He has presented tutorials on Linked Data at ISWC 2008 and the Web of Data Practitioners Day 2009, and has co-authored the tutorial-style documents How to Publish Linked Data on the Web and Cool URIs for the Semantic Web.

John L. Sheridan (http://twitter.com/johnlsheridan) is Head of e-Services and Strategy at the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) in addition to serving as a co-chair of the W3C’s eGovernment Interest Group. OPSI is a key enabler for the re-use of government information in the UK, with responsibility for the re-use strand of policy development and the operational management of Crown copyright and database rights. John works at the intersection of information policy, technology and online service delivery. With a background in IT, specializing in the Web, he has led a number of projects to enable government data, in particular using Semantic Web technology. John has spoken at numerous conferences and events, in the UK and internationally, speaking to both policy and technology audiences.

Source: latc-project.eu