Linked Data : Linking your resources to the Data Web

The AIMS Community is glad to announce the Webinar entitled Linking your resources to the Data Web.

This event is part of the series of Webinars@AIMS.

The session will be presented by Tom Baker, chief information officer (CIO) of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).

The objective of this webinar is to help individuals and organizations to understand better the initiatives related to the Semantic Web that are currently taking place.

Linking data into the Semantic Web means more than just making data available on a Web server. It means using Web addresses (URIs) in data as names for things; tagging resources using those URIs - for example, URIs for agricultural topics from AGROVOC; and using URIs to point to related resources.

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The webinar "Linking your resources to the Data Web" walks through a simple example to show how linking works in practice, illustrating RDF technology with animated graphics.

It concludes with a recipe for linking your data: Decide what bits of your data are most important, such as Subject, Author, and Publisher.

Use URIs in your data, whenever possible, such as Subject terms from AGROVOC.

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Then publish your data in RDF on the Web where others can link to it.

Simple solutions can be enough to yield good results.

Linking your resources to the Data Web

Thomas Baker

is CIO of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). He has recently co-chaired the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group and the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group, which published Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). Tom holds an MLS from Rutgers University and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. He has worked as a researcher at an economic institute in Italy; taught at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand; led projects at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD, later Fraunhofer) and the Goettingen State Library; and consulted with organizations such as the Max Planck Digital Library and the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Seeing metadata as language, Tom was instrumental in standardizing the Dublin Core and SKOS as Semantic Web vocabularies. He advocates a healthy ecosystem of vocabularies ranging from individual initiatives to formal standards and preserved by memory institutions, their persistent URIs serving as "footnotes" for data of long-term significance.

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Linked Data : Linking your resources to the Data Web

04/12/2012

Thomas Baker

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