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Re: What do you want to learn about linked data?

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Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 4 Sep 2013 18:41:23 +0100

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Thanks, Richard. I've added that to the tutorials area of my linked data 
"a bit of everything" page:

http://kcoyle.net/presentations/links.html

kc

On 9/4/13 4:56 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
> For a bit more in depth material, I often point folks at the EUCLID Project
> <http://www.euclid-project.eu/>
>
> ~Richard.
>
>
> On 4 September 2013 15:30, Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Just a recommendation for a source of information - I've found
>> http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ very useful especially in
>> thinking about the practicalities of linked data publication and
>> consumption in applications
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> Owen Stephens
>> Owen Stephens Consulting
>> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>>
>> On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:13, "Akerman, Laura" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Karen,
>>>
>>> It's hard to say what "basics" are.  We had a learning group at Emory
>> that covered a lot of the "what is it", including mostly what you've listed
>> but also the environment (library and cultural heritage, and larger
>> environment), but we had a harder time getting to the "what do you do with
>> it".... which is what would really motivate and empower people to go ahead
>> and get beyond basics.
>>> Maybe add:
>>>
>>> How do you embed linked data in web pages using RDFa
>>> (Difference between RDFa and schema.org/other microdata)
>>> How do you harvest linked data from web pages, endpoints, or other modes
>> of delivery?
>>> Different serializations and how to convert
>>> How do you establish relations between different "vocabularies" (classes
>> and properties) using RDFS and OWL?
>>> (Demo) New answers to your questions enabled by combining and querying
>> linked data!
>>> Maybe a step toward "what can you do with it" would be to show (or have
>> an exercise):
>>> How can a web application interface with linked data?
>>>
>>> I suspect there are a lot of people who've read about it and/or have had
>> tutorials here and there, and who really want to get their hands in it.
>>   That's where there's a real dearth of training.
>>> An "intermediate level" workshop addressing (but not necessarily
>> answering!) questions like:
>>> Do you need a triplestore or will a relational database do?
>>> Do you need to store your data as RDF or can you do everything you need
>> with XML or some other format, converting on the way out or in?
>>> Should you query external endpoints in real time in your application, or
>> cache the data?
>>> Other than SPARQL, how do you "search" linked data?  Indexing
>> strategies...  tools...
>>> If asserting  OWL "sameAs" is too dangerous in your context, what other
>> strategies for expressing "close to it" relationships between resources
>> (concepts) might work for you?
>>> Advanced SPARQL using regular expressions, CREATE, etc.
>>> Care and feeding of triplestores (persistence, memory, ....)
>>> Costing out linked data applications:
>>>    How much additional server space and bandwidth will I (my institution)
>> need to provision in order to work with this stuff?
>>>    Open source, "free", vs. commercial management systems?
>>> Backward conversion -transformations from linked data to other data
>> serializations (e.g. metadata standards in XML).
>>> What else?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately (or maybe just, how it is) no one has built an interface
>> that hides all the programming and technical details from people but lets
>> them experience/experiment with this stuff (have they?).  So some knowledge
>> is necessary.  What are prerequisites and how could we make the burden of
>> knowing them not so onerous to people who don't have much experience in web
>> programming or system administration, so they could get value from a
>> tutorial,?
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> Laura Akerman
>>> Technology and Metadata Librarian
>>> Room 208, Robert W. Woodruff Library
>>> Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322
>>> (404) 727-6888
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Karen Coyle
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:59 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want to learn about linked data?
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I had a few off-list requests for basics - what are the basic things
>> that librarians need to know about linked data? I have a site where I am
>> putting up a somewhat crudely designed tutorial (with exercises):
>>> http://kcoyle.net/metadata/
>>>
>>> As you can see, it is incomplete, but I work away on it when so
>> inspired. It includes what I consider to be the basic knowledge:
>>> 1. What is metadata?
>>> 2. Data vs. text
>>> 3. Identifiers (esp. URIs)
>>> 4. Statements (not records) (read: triples) 5. Semantic Web basics 6.
>> URIs (more in depth) 7. Ontologies 8. Vocabularies
>>> I intend to link various slide sets to this, and anyone is welcome to
>> make use of the content there. It would be GREAT for it to become an actual
>> tutorial, perhaps using better software, but I haven't found anything yet
>> that I like working with.
>>> If you have basics to add, please let me know!
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/1/13 5:37 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>> I'm thinking about training needs around linked data -- yes, that
>>>> includes basic concepts, but at the moment I'm wondering what specific
>>>> technologies or tasks people would like to learn about? Some obvious
>>>> examples are: how to do SPARQL queries; how to use triples in
>>>> databases; maybe how to use Protege (free software) [1] to create an
>>>> ontology. Those are just a quick shot across the bow, and from my
>>>> basically non-techie point of view. Please add your own.
>>>>
>>>> If you can't say it in terms of technology, it would be as good (if
>>>> not maybe better) to say it in terms of what you'd like to be able to
>>>> do (do searches, create data... )
>>>>
>>>> This is very unscientific, but I think it's a worthwhile conversation
>>>> to have, and maybe can help get some ideas for training.
>>>>
>>>> kc
>>>> [1] http://protege.stanford.edu/
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Karen Coyle
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Karen Coyle
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