Re: UK reference URIs

[Kingsley Idehen]

On 7/3/12 12:42 PM, Augusto Herrmann wrote:

Hi!

Yes, I noticed that as well. I knew of this linked data before, and
was just going to show to officials here in the Ministry as an example
of what interesting things can be done by publishing open government
data as linked open data. I decided to show them the Puelia PHP
interface data.gov.uk had for showing triples by dereferencing the URI
of a school, road or a government departed. But then I was surprised
to find it doesn't work anymore...

Example: 
http://reference.data.gov.uk/doc/department/co/unit/national-school-of-government

Note: 303 Redirects still work, e.g.
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/department/co/unit/national-school-of-government
redirects to the URL above.

Any word on what happened?

Regards,
Augusto Herrmann
Open Data Team - Ministry of Planning - Brazil

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Sarven Capadisli <i...@csarven.ca> wrote:

Greetings and salutations,

Several weeks ago I've noticed that reference.data.gov.uk was not resolving.
It still appears to be the case. Is this a temporary issue?

Same goes for education.data.gov.uk - although this goes back a year or two
even. I've reported this issue back then, but haven't heard back.

It is sad to see these great resources drop, especially the reference URIs
in my opinion, because they fit really well in context of statistical data.

If anyone has any insiders on this or would like to comment on design
considerations going forward, that'd be great.

-Sarven

Sarven,



Links:

Also note, we did upload a lot of Data.Gov.UK (what we could get our hands on) to the LOD cloud cache [1] we maintain. 1. http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct -- full text search and faceted browser interface

2. http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql -- sparql endpoint

3. http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/100868 -- sample URI that no longer resolves

4. http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/100868 -- access to the same data albeit not via its canonical URI

5. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Freference.data.gov.uk%2Fdef%2Fcentral-government%2FDepartment -- Government Departments

6. http://delicious.com/kidehen/logd -- some demos bookmarked from the past that will provide various pathways to what's in the LOD cloud cache.

All:




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