Building the Web of Data

Web of Things Workshop, 26 June 2014

A Problem

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Two Problems

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The Five Star World

The Three Star World

The Data Activity

The Data Activity

Use HTTP URIs to identify things, places, people, ideas, sensors

The Share-PSI 2.0 Thematic Network

Workshop series 2014 - 2015

• Uses of open data within government for innovation and efficiency; Samos, 30 June - 1 July
• Encouraging data usage by commercial developers, incl. session with LAPSI; Lisbon 3-4 December
• Identifying data sets for publication; Timisoara, March 2015
• A self sustaining business model for open data; Krems, May 2015
• Improving interoperability; Berlin, November 2015

More info at http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/

Existing Working Groups

• Linked Data Platform (Candidate Rec)
• Health Care & Life Sciences IG
• Support for vocabulary development
  • schema.org through Web Schemas Task Force of the Semantic Web Interest Group;
  • Community Groups for new vocabs etc. (easier than you might think to get a www.w3.org/ns namespace);
  • promotion of multilingual schemas
• Data Activity Coordination Group

New Working Groups

Started January:

• CSV on the Web WG (chairs Jeni Tennison, Dan Brickley)
• Data on the Web Best Practices (chairs: Hadley Beeman, Yaso Córdova, Steve Adler)

Coming soon, subject to process …

• RDF Data Shapes (validation), see draft charter
• Joint W3C/OGC WG Spatial Data on the Web

Spatial Data on the Web WG

• Agreeing common spatial vocabulary (GeoSPARQL, NeoGeo, ISA Locn)
• Best practices/cook book
• OWL Time Ontology to Rec
• Semantic Sensor Network to Rec

Use Cases Please!

• CSV on the Web [Published], [Editor's Draft], [wiki]
• Data on the Web BP [Published], [Editor's Draft], [wiki]
• RDF Data Shapes [draft charter], [public mailing list]
• Spatial Data on the Web [draft charter], [public mailing list]

Use Cases Please!

• CSV on the Web [Published], [Editor's Draft], [wiki]
• Data on the Web BP [Published], [Editor's Draft], [wiki]
• RDF Data Shapes [draft charter], [public mailing list]
• Spatial Data on the Web [draft charter], [public mailing list]