Turning the web into a context graph

Leigh Dodds

http://kasabi.comhttp://slideshare.net/ldodds

Linked Data

Turning the Web into a Context Graph

29th February 2012Strataconf

@ldodds

Identity is Tricky

Place Identifiers

Rosetta Stone?

Switchboard

Shared Keys

Why Not Use The Web?

Linked Data

Keep it simple

Actually publish and connect data

Start joining up what is available

Use HTTP Identifiers

http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/100846

Serve Data Directly

curl -L -H "Accept: text/html" http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/100846

curl -L -H "Accept: application/json" http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/100846

Link to More Data

http://bit.ly/ld-patterns

http://bit.ly/ld-cloud

Is It Useful?

Reference Data

Activity Data

Recombinant Data

Semantic Web?!?

(Web) Architectural Convergence

Thank You!

Photo Attribution

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