As part of our work on the SDX project we felt one requirement was to enable typical web developers to exploit the RDF linked data in a simpler, more developer friendly form. In particular it would be nice to be able to access an RDF model of a resource as JSON to simply using it…

Although there is a dump of the RDF data from CKAN available on-line, it’s the full CKAN dataset and not the UK Government-specific set. For some ongoing experiments, I want some CKAN data in RDF for the published government data listed on data.hmg.gov.uk. The source data is published, however, in CSV and JSON format. This…

I was at the Bristol Vocamp recently (a fun event) and there was a lot of discussion around issues of validating RDF and checking conformance with lightweight RDF vocabularies. There was some talk about constraint expression languages but I suggested that OWL, and especially OWL 2, already do quite a lot of that. Couple that…

In some recent semantic web applications, where we’ve been creating user interfaces over REST style interfaces over RDF data sets, we found a common pattern emerging – ResultSets. The approach we took has been documented but it’s buried in other details so I’d like to pull out the essential pattern in this post. Situation The…

For some experiments we’re doing at the moment, I need some datasets from CKAN that also include VoID markup. Fortunately, the metadata from CKAN has been translated to RDF: there’s no official reference that I can find, but this thread describes the main points. Sadly, the CKAN RDF does not include any elements from VoID….