{"id":1321,"date":"2011-10-27T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-10-27T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:45:56","slug":"cheapskates-guide-to-linked-open-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/10\/cheapskates-guide-to-linked-open-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheapskates guide to Linked Open Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rurik Greenall (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brinxmat\">@brinxmat<\/a>) with a &#8216;Cheapskates guide to linked open data&#8217;. Using &#8216;Gunnerus Library&#8217; special collections as an example. Wanted to remove the &#8216;fear experienced when faced by expert interfaces&#8217; &#8211; want an interface that contextualises data.<\/p>\n<p>Rurik says &#8220;if you&#8217;ve created a PDF, you&#8217;ve created RDF&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s baked in there by default. Rurik shows example from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/folk.ntnu.no\/greenall\/gunnerus\/search\/\">http:\/\/folk.ntnu.no\/greenall\/gunnerus\/search\/<\/a> &#8211; some is local data, but some dragged from other places across the web. Nice looking interface.<\/p>\n<p>Rurik says Linked open data &#8220;Clawing back what remains of our professional dignity&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have to learn about RDF &#8211; but it really isn&#8217;t that difficult<\/li>\n<li>Tools of the trade &#8211; Google Spreadsheets; Google refine (esp. with DERI Galway RDF plugin)<\/li>\n<li>Talis offer free hosting if your data is openly licensed<\/li>\n<li>Tell all the people<\/li>\n<li>Develop your application &#8211; you will need a programmer \ud83d\ude42 but you&#8217;ve already modelled your data&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Q: What are the mature libraries for manipulating RDF?<\/div>\n<div>A: Look at Sesame for Java; ARC2 for PHP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rurik Greenall (@brinxmat) with a &#8216;Cheapskates guide to linked open data&#8217;. Using &#8216;Gunnerus Library&#8217; special collections as an example. Wanted to remove the &#8216;fear experienced when faced by expert interfaces&#8217; &#8211; want an interface that contextualises data. Rurik says &#8220;if you&#8217;ve created a PDF, you&#8217;ve created RDF&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s baked in there by default. Rurik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ili2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}