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Linked Open Data Business Models
Jeni Tennison has blogged about Open Data Business Models (https://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/172). Like all Jeni’s writings it’s useful and insightful. But I resonated particularly strongly with one comment in her blog: “I don’t think anyone is likely to publish open data well if they don’t have some motivation that is a lot nearer to home than ‘helping grow…
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Using Interval URIs in Statistical Data
Statistical publications generally include at least one dimension comprised of the time intervals over which data has been aggregated.
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Bathing Water Quality as Linked Data
Is is safe to go back in the water? In the movie Jaws 2 the risk to avoid was a giant shark, but fortunately this is not a threat we have to worry about in the UK. There are, however, other reasons to be careful. One of these is water quality: we would prefer to…
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Driving the bathing water quality API from JavaScript
We’ve just completed a project helping the Environment Agency of England & Wales publish their bathing water quality data and bathing water profiles as linked data. The data is available for re-use by developers through an instance of the linked data API, which is intended to make linked data more accessible to web developers. Less…
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Simple Security for Fuseki
This entry describes an interim solution for providing a minimal level of access control to a Fuseki server. Fuseki, a part of the Jena family of linked data tools, is an Open Source SPARQL server. It provides the REST-style SPARQL HTTP Update, and SPARQL Query and SPARQL Update using the SPARQL protocol over HTTP. Though…
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Guide to the Payments Ontology
Background There is ongoing work within both local and central government on publication of data on payments to suppliers. Initially such data is generally being published as raw spreadsheets but there is a desire to move towards publication using open web standards that facilitate combination and comparison of data. Such linked data approaches can offer…
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An organization ontology : Final steps
The next steps in developing our ontology involve one more set of changes (linking to OPMV) and, most importantly, publishing the ontology somewhere. These aren’t the “final” steps as far as the ontology is concerned, it will need to evolve as people gain experiences applying it and give feedback on design and naming issues. However,…
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An organization ontology: Second draft
This is the fourth in our series of postings on the design of an organization ontology. The focus this time is on revising the ontology in the light of feedback and reflection. Review Reviewing the results of our draft with respect to the various design guides then we notice that we have failed to follow…
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An organization ontology: First draft
This is the third in our series of posts recording the (currently ongoing) process of developing an organization ontology. Here we sketch an initial design. Taking the initial requirements we now look at each part of the domain scope and identify the core classes, properties and design patterns. This sketch is designed to cover all…
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An organization ontology : Requirements
Background The data.gov.uk linked data project found itself in need on an ontology or vocabulary to support linked data publishing of government organizational information. A check for existing ontologies didn’t turn up an ideal solution so we decided to develop one. This is the first of a series of posts describing the process we went…