Linked Open Data – THATCamp Wellington 2013 http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:46:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 TEACH: What can a SPARQL endpoint do for you? http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/25/teach-what-can-a-sparql-endpoint-do-for-you/ http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/25/teach-what-can-a-sparql-endpoint-do-for-you/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:42:32 +0000 http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/?p=216 Continue reading ]]>

[Update: 3 December 2013]: A blog summarizing a little of what I presented at my THATCamp session can be found here: exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/architecture-of-the-fr-org/ – Thanks to all those who attended!]

Two-weeks back I built myself a linked file-format registry. For me, one of the biggest motivations is opening up existing data and making it more queryable…

I want to share some of that experience and provide a bit of a technical background about the implementation of that work, and what a SPARQL endpoint can do for you.

Covering:

  • The motivation
  • A (brief) intro to RDF / Linked Data
  • Architecture
  • .htaccess makes it fly! (hint: magic)
  • Query mechanisms
  • You… (well, what’s next)

Conclusion: The technology isn’t a silver bullet, but, make your data available on the web, and use open standards.

Further Reading…

Personal blog, covering the work: exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/the-fr-org/

A bit of an example query: bit.ly/I2xwB3 (More information on this particular query in session…)

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