Hi all, >From an earlier post:
"As Chris alludes I'm giving a talk today to a meeting of Dutch researchers and cultural heritage professionals entitled "The Linking Open Data Project- Bootstrapping the Web of Data". I'll put the slides online shortly, at which point I'd like to have a little tidy up and rearrangement of the links at http://linkeddata.org/. Does anyone else have slides they'd like to add to a new /slides/ area of the site? If so please feel free to mail them to me and I'll get it sorted. I guess PDF should be the preferred format." With the talk over I thought a little trip report would be in order... The invitation to give the talk came from Guus Schreiber from the VU Amsterdam, who organised the joint meeting of members of the CATCH [1] and MultimediaN E-Culture [2] projects, around the theme of metadata interoperability. There were some great talks during the meeting outlining the fantastic Semantic Web work going on in the cultural heritage sector in the Netherlands. My talk followed these; slides are at [3] and hopefully there'll be a video soon aswell. There were a few key take home messages I, err, took home from the meeting. Firstly, the CH sector in the Netherlands is well advanced technically and highly motivated to take advantage of interoperability initiatives, supported financially by the Dutch government and scientifically by researchers such as Guus and colleagues. There is a great opportunity here to involve this community in the Linked Data movement. Secondly, I had an interesting chat with Frank van Harmelen, who is a big fan of LOD. IIRC, his comment during the talk was that LOD is one of the coolest things currently going on in the Semantic Web world. Frank's observations/words of wisdom for us as a community were (and I hope he won't mind me paraphrasing him in public): 1) if the ratio of inter-data-set links to overall-triple-count is as low as the stats we quote suggest, doesn't this make the graph rather sparse. I think we could benefit from studying this in some more detail, or at least re-estimating the number of links; 2) linking algorithms are going to be increasingly important, and need much more research; 3) the LOD-spawned Web of Data doesn't much exploit the semantics of the data - when are we as a community going to begin exploiting these semantics to further the goals of the project, perhaps in areas such as automated interlinking? It was a great meeting all round, and hopefull some more people will be inspired to join us as a result. Last of all, as above, does anyone want slides adding to http://linkeddata.org/slides/? Cheers, Tom. [1] http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5XSKYG [2] http://www.multimedian.nl/en/project_n9c.php [3] http://linkeddata.org/slides/2008-02-amsterdam-catch.pdf -- Tom Heath Researcher Platform Team Talis Information Ltd T: 0870 400 5000 W: http://www.talis.com/ _______________________________________________ Linking-open-data mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/linking-open-data
