Creating a web of government linked data

Creating a web of government linked data John Sheridan Head of e-Services and Strategy 25 September 2009

Some key extracts… • “Mr Berners-Lee and Prof Shadbolt presented an update to Cabinet on their work advising the Government on how to make data more accessible to the public” • “Sir Tim Berners-Lee told Cabinet about the goal of delivering a single online access point to Government information, similar to the one introduced by the Obama administration in the US.”

We can do more with the web than just deliver documents to people

What makes the current (document) Web work? • people create different documents • they give an address to it (ie, a URI) and make it accessible to others on the Web

In more practical terms… • Use URIs to publish data, not only full documents • Link the data to other data • Classify the data and the links (the “terms”) to convey extra meaning • Use standards throughout (RDF, OWL, SKOS, SPARQL)

A sneak peek… (but sshhh)

Questions?

Creating a web of government linked data

Creating a web of government linked data

Presentation Transcript

Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data

Creating a New Government

The Web of Linked Data Information Universe

Semantic Web and Linked Data

Creating Linked Data

Creating a New Government

Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data

Creating a Functioning Government

Creating a Government

Creating A Government

Creating A Lasting Government

Creating a New Government:

Linked Government Data

Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data

Creating a Semantic Web with Linked Data

The Web of Linked Data

Creating a new Government

Linked Open Government Data: What’s Next?

Mashing Up Linked Open Government Data

Web Services and Linked Data

Creating a New Government

Automatically Generating Government Linked Data from Tables