Tom Heath wrote: > 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,
Great Job! BTW - You can dump the presentations in your ODS-Briefcase instance (use the "Public" folder) at http://community.linkeddata.org/ods/index.html and then when you view your Profile, just click on the "Linked Data" tab, follow your FOAF Profile and you will see what you've "foaf:made" :-) . Of course, this is just one way of looking at the data, you can also use the Briefcase's own UI or simply go raw via: http://community.linkeddata.org/DAV/home/<your-id>/Public or http://community.linkeddata.org/DAV/home/<your-id>/Items (where information resources are filtered by content type). -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com _______________________________________________ Linking-open-data mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/linking-open-data
