Cover page images (keys)

Linked Data for eGov

Eric Prud'hommeaux, eric@w3.org
Sanitation Engineer

Publisher's Perspective

You want to share information.
You create a page to with that information.
You link to related information.

User's Perspective

They are looking for a field of information.
They find your information.
They follow links to related information.

Publisher's Mechanics

You want to share information.
- information about public services
- civic pages (city site)
- (anonymized) census data

You create a page to with that information.

@prefix sfMed: <http://sfMed.example/services/medical>
sfMed:kingSt geo:lat 35.835;
             geo:long 140.218 
             map:pointer <http://maps.google.com...> .

You link to related information.

<http://sf.ca.us/mayorsOffice#services :cityService sfMed:kingSt ;
                                       :regionalHospital sfGenral:marketSt .

User's Mechanics

Run with scissors.
Browse or use query app to look for nearest clinic.
Never think about the infrastructure.

Current techniques

Web site oversite.
Independent contractors.
Exhaustive user search.

Status

around 50 that are dereferencable.
around 20-500 that are not dereferencable.
Many more on the way.

Status

terminology: Wikipedia, dbpedia, DMOZ, WordNet.
Biological data: UniProt, HCLS data
Government data: Census, GovTrack (US Congress), .