Linked data
10 second tour
- Overview of Linked Data
Across government over the last ten years there has been a growing realisation to the power of linked data for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data and information using uniform resource identifiers (URIs).
- What is Linked Data?
Linked Data is data in which real-world things are given addresses on the web (URIs), and data is published about them in machine-readable formats.
- Who is doing what?
Linked Data approaches across the public sector have over the last 12 months have been moving from pilots to proven business as usual.
Following the recent issues and events effecting pilot implementations of UK Government Linked Data I thought it would be helpful to provide an update on behalf of the UK Government Linked Data Working Group - Quick Start Team which had their first meeting on Monday. Firstly, a server problem disrupted access to the source dumps of several of the Linked Data datasets and to the Linked Data API font end pages for datasets like http://education.data.gov.uk and http://transport.data.gov.uk. Secondly, Talis Systems Ltd, who host several of the data.gov.uk Linked Data assets have announced the imminent closure of their hosting service....
