Linked Ocean Data

Research Data ManagementNova Southeastern University – Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography – Ocean Campus

16-20 November 2015

Linked Ocean DataAdam Leadbetter

Marine Institute, [email protected]

With the support of the Government of

Flanders, Belgium

Learning Outcomes

• Following this session you will be able to:–Describe the history of “formal knowledge” in ocean science research data management–Understand the concepts of the Semantic Web and Linked Data–Query the Semantic Web–Connect your local data catalogues to the Semantic Web–Understand a framework for applying these techniques in real-time

Research Data Management

“Formal knowledge” in oceanscience research data management

• Following this session you will be able to: – Describe the history of data models in marine

Research Data Management– Access key resources in the current state of the art



• From quills and free-text to the digital age and “Big Data” (Buck & Lowry, forthcoming)














http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk International Journal of Digital Earth 7 (10), 811-828.


• “There are emergent technologies throughout the fields around oceanography which we will incorporate into oceanography, and through that convergence we will make oceanography into something even more magical”– John Delaney, University of Washington

• Mission Blue Voyage TED Talk, April 2010

Semantic Web and Linked Data


• Following this session you will be able to:– Understand the basic concepts of

• The Semantic Web• Linked Data• Linked Open Data

–Find examples for querying ocean science research data published on the Semantic Web





Unique identifier - URL

When theidentifier islooked upsomethingstandardhappens

Links to othersites which maybe of interest



• ““If HTML and the World Wide Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, the Semantic Web will make all the data in the world look like one huge database.”– Sir Tim Berners-Lee

• Weaving the Web, 1999












Research Data Managementhttp://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2013/12/19/what-is-ontology/





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cpm:UnitOfMeasure

cpm:property

cpm:ObservableProperty

cpm:Matrix

cpm:unitOfMeasure

cpm:restriction

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cpm:CompositeObservableProperty

rdfs:subClassOf

rdfs:subClassOf

cpm:AbstractObservableProperty





• ““If HTML and the World Wide Web made all the online documents look like one huge book, [Linked Data] will make all the data in the world look like one huge database.”– Sir Tim Berners-Lee

• Weaving the Web, 1999



1.Use URIs to identify “things”2.Use HTTP URIs so people can look those things

up on the Web3.When someone accesses a URI, provide useful

information using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)

4.Include links to other URIs so people can discover more things
















Linked Ocean Big Data


• Following this session you will be able to:– Understand the basic concepts of

• Big Data• Streaming Data

• Follow the latest developments in connecting Linked Data with Big Data
















[email protected]@AdamLeadbetter
