Dublinked Technical Workshop 29th January 2013 As part of technical Dublinked Innovation Network technical workshop series, Dublinked held an evening workshop to explore and discuss the opportunities associated with linked data and search. Throughout the workshop attendees heard from industry experts and practitioners detailing their research and work in area of search and linked data. After presentations by DERI and IBM, attendees had the opportunity to discuss Dublinked, search and linked data within a facilitator led breakout session - outline of discussion and feedback detailed below.
About Dublinked: Dublinked, a new regional data sharing initiative sees previously unreleased public operational data being made available online for others to research or reuse. With the initial data coming from Dublin City Council and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, South Dublin and Fingal County Councils, it is expected that the other public and private organisations in Dublin will link up with Dublinked to share their data and invite research collaborations. The information is curated by NUI Maynooth to ensure ideas can be commercialised as easily as possible and to minimise legal or technical barriers that can be impediments for small and mediums businesses (SMEs) seeking to develop and prove business ideas. If you would like to hear about future Dublinked events, send an email to dublinked@nuim.ie to join our mailing list.
Speakers on the Day Included: Vanessa Lopez – Linked Data & Search Research Engineer, Smart Cities Technology Centre, IBM Vanessa Lopez is a research engineer at the Smarter Cities Technology Centre (SCTC) at IBM’s Dublin Research Laboratory in Ireland. Prior to joining IBM in 2012, she was a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute (The Open University, UK), where she completed her PhD on novel Sematic Web technologies to support
users
querying
and
exploring
heterogeneous data sources. She participated in several European projects, developed prototypes for Question Answering over Linked Data, and published her work in more than 30 conference and journals. Before this, she worked at the European Space Agency. Her current research interests are to investigate how Linked Data technologies can be used to interpret, capture and integrate live and open data from cities.
Richard Cyganiak – Linked Data Research Associate, DERI and Co-Ordinator of DERI’s Linked Data Research Centre. Richard’s research interest is web-scale data integration and the application of semantic Web technologies to Open Data and Official Statistics. He is a co-founder of the Linking Open Data initiative. He contributes to web standards development at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and serves as an editor of a number of specifications and metadata standards, including RDF 1.1 Concepts, R2RML 1.0, and the Data Cube Vocabulary. He maintains a number of source software projects, including the database-to-RDF mapper DRRQ, the linked Data server Pubby, and the RDF Schema editor and publishing system Neologism.
Discussion Feedback from Breakout Sessions: Linked Data Expense of integration and re-use of data within organisations How can linked data help?
Actions Workshop on Linked open Data Getting started with Linked Data. Lessons learnt from others Publishing data as services Linked data projects should be supported & driven by government agencies
Challenges Defining and ontology for the organisations. Publishing some data Where are other organisations on this space?
Inspire Directive and Linked Data Making sure inspire and open data are aligned – e.g. ISDE and Dublinked Looking at opportunities that linked data presents when doing this work First steps – Turning catalogues into linked data.
Who is doing linked data projects in Ireland? DERI – Open Data Publishing Pipeline (ODPP) AIRO Digital Humanities – Digital Repository Ireland, Europeana Trinity College Dublin
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