Improving Organization of Govt. based Linked Data Projects

[Kingsley Idehen]

All,

I continue to struggle with easy discovery of Government oriented Linked 
Data (UK and U.S. are examples). Basically, a long time ago, we 
established some core principles for Linked Open Data published to the 
Web. The components where broken down as follows:

1. Publish RDF Data Set archive URLs to a well known location -- 
http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDumps
2. Publish SPARQL Endpoints -- e.g., <http://esw.w3.org/SparqlEndpoints>
3. Publish Linked Data -- an home page or deeply linked URI will do.

DBpedia still provides a very nice template for the above.

Unfortunately, most of the Govt oriented Linked Data projects haven't 
quite adopted the scheme above thereby making the process of discovering 
items 1-3 quite tedious.

Suggestions:

I think we can tackle this problem by doing the following:

1. Use the moniker Linked Open Govt Data (LOGD) for all Govt. oriented 
Linked Data projects
2. Use #hashtag #logd on Twitter and "logd" for tagging on del.cio.us -- 
one data is on del.icio.us or Twitter, its basically part of LOD via 
RDFizers etc..

So Far I have:

1. http://delicious.com/kidehen/logd  -- del.icio.us tag


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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	      
President & CEO 
OpenLink Software     
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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