Off the top of my head:
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/what-linked-open-government-data
http://aims.fao.org/agris
http://data.gov.uk/location
http://datos.bne.es/
http://statistics.data.gov.uk/
http://europeana.eu/
etc.
What "linked" and "open" provide is exactly what it says - linked=able
to be used in combination with data from other Web resources;
open=anyone can use the data. There are projects that are using CSV or
XSL files, but those function as self-contained bits of data, without
the linking, even if they are openly available.
kc
On 12/22/14 7:30 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
And as has already been pointed out, no one has really show an impressive end
user use for linked data, which American decision making tends to be more
driven by.
Well, that raises an important question -- whether an 'end user use', or other
use, do people have examples of neat/important/useful things done with linked
data in Europe, especially that would have been harder or less likely without
the data being modelled/distributed as linked data?
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There are deeper issues at work here than just the kind of obvious surface
issues.
One of the reason Europe embraced rdf triples and linked data was timing. The
EU was forming its centralized information institutions the same time the idea
of linked data to solve certain problem came about. So they took it and ran
with it. In the US we have been primarily driven by the big data movement that
gained steam shortly after. And as has already been pointed out, no one has
really show an impressive end user use for linked data, which American decision
making tends to be more driven by.
Europeans can think about data and databases differently than we can here in
the US. In Europe a database is intellectual property, in the US only parts of
the database that fall under copyright law are intellectual property, which for
most databases isn't much. You can’t copyright a fact. So in the US once you
release the data into the wild its usually public domain.
As for government data, the Federal and most state governments are in need of
an overhaul that would make it possible. If you don’t have the systems or
people in place who can make it happen it won’t happen. Heck the federal
government can’t even get a single set of accounting software and what not.
So it isn’t just a lack of leadership or will, there are other things at work
as well.
Brent
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Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 10:32 AM
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Yep, yep, and yep.
Plus I'd add that the lack of centralization of library direction (read:
states) is also a hindrance here. Having national leadership would be
great. Being smaller also wouldn't hurt.
kc
On 12/19/14 6:48 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I don’t know about y’all, but it seems to me that things like linked data and
open access are larger trends in Europe than here in the United States. Is
there are larger commitment to sharing in Europe when compared to the United
States? If so, is this a factor based on the nonexistence of a national library
in the United States? Is this your perception too? —Eric Morgan
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