Ken Fujiuchi
Father, Librarian, Geek
Linked Data:
The Building Blocks of the Semantic Web
Ken Fujiuchi, Emerging Technology Librarian
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Linked Data
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Semantic Web
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Examples of Linked Data
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Discussion
Topics to Cover
The Internet
Fire Hose of Data
Linked Data
A web of "relationships"
Four Rules of Linked Data
"Linked Data Principles"
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Use URIs as names for things
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Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names
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When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)
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Include links to other URIs so that they can discover more things
Use Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)s as names for things
Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names
When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)
Include links to other URIs, so that they can discover more things
Linked Open Data
Linked data with open license
Linked Data Standards
RDF*, SPARQL, and Others
General framework for describing web metadata
RDF "Triples"
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Subject
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Predicate
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Object
SPARQL
Query language for RDF
Schema and Microdata
The Semantic Web
Navigating the relationships of data
Examples
Bibliographic Framework
Persistent Digital Identifier for Researchers
Unified Authority File for Libraries
Discussion
Questions & Comments
Linked Data: the Building Blocks of the Semantic Web
By Ken Fujiuchi
Linked Data: the Building Blocks of the Semantic Web
The term "Linked Data" refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. The best way for librarians to understand is to think of Linked Data as MARC for the web. The big difference is that in the web environment the data can be inter-connected to multiple sources, formats, and meta-data, and by aggregating linked data, it is possible to gain more insight to the context and meaning of the data. The concept of linked data is to make the human interpretation of the data machine readable. Examples of data that can be linked include the US data.gov site, OCLC Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), and microformats. This workshop will cover a brief overview of linked data, look at some practical applications, and do some hands on exercises to demonstrate linked data.
