Re: Improving Organization of Govt. based Linked Data Projects

[Kingsley Idehen]

Hugh Glaser wrote:
Hi Kingsley, I am right with you - finding stuff is hard.
But I do think we could make it easier for all of us.
Just the esw wiki alone requires me to put every set I create into a bunch of 
place, for example, at least:
* [[http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets 
DataSets]]
* [[http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDumps RDF Dumps]]
* [[http://esw.w3.org/SparqlEndpoints SPARQL endpoints]]
* 
[[http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/LinkStatistics
 Link Statistics]]


In the end, I just don’t manage it, partially because it entails editing a 
large wiki page for most (although the move to MW must be an great improvement).

So if I find the whole thing laborious.
Telling people to go and edit multiple pages is not really customer oriented (I 
view the publishers as our customers in the Linked Data world).
  
I agree, so what about del.icio.us bookmarks?
Does anyone want to step up to the plate and do a swish repository for this 
data, with easy entry (including RESTful) and publishing as html, Linked Data, 
json etc. using voiD, etc?
  
Even better, I am sure this can be assembled in bits, as Melvin has 
already demonstrated :-)

Kingsley
Best
Hugh

On 20/03/2010 20:18, "Kingsley Idehen" <kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote:

  
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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