MetaLOD

Ever thought about how to select a LOD dataset? Information like ‘this LOD dataset offers location-based data’ or ‘here you get statistical data about Europe’ – here are some thoughts about LOD datasets metadata: Using Linking Open Data datasets.

Dataportability Hymn by Danny Ayers

Danny rocks: Get Your Data Out, the new dataportability hymn!

Modeling Statistics in RDF – A Survey and Discussion

Lee Feigenbaum has put together a nice piece on modeling stats in RDF. In his conclusion he writes:

The riese approach seems the best combination of flexibility and usability. It should allow us to recreate the data-table structures with a reasonable degree of fidelity in another environment (e.g. on the Web), as well as to construct a basic semantic repository by attaching definitions to the various statistical entities, facets, and properties. All that said, the proofs in the pudding, and until I’m quite open to other suggestions.

Linked Data Comes of Age

Mike Bergman has written a niece piece on the success story of LOD (incl. upcoming stuff), mentioning the LDOW08 and the LinkedData Planet conference (with TimBL as the key speaker, wow!). I guess 2008 will become a good year for LOD …

riese launched

On 2008-01-31, riese (the RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort) has  been launched: the first XHTML+RDFa deployed LOD dataset (currently some 5MTriple are available, the goal is to serve 3GTriple). riese offers  a new interlinking method, the so called User Contributed Interlinking (UCI). Fo a gentle introduction to riese see the following slides: