Hi Kingsley :) Quick question... Is there a way I can create the foaf:made triple without replicating the slides in two places?
Cheers, Tom. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Kingsley Idehen > Sent: 10 March 2008 16:08 > To: Linking Open Data > Subject: Re: [Linking-open-data] Linked Data Trip Report, > Amsterdam CATCH/E-Culture Meeting on Metadata Interop > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Linking-open-data mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/linking-open-data
