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
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
