Welcome to LEDP

Get to know

• the environment
• some needs
• some tools (W3C process)
• each other

Environment

Linked Open Data used in:

• eGov - publication/access to civil data.
• Life Sciences - decentralized biomedical data.
• Cultural - BBC, Last.fm, Music Brainz
• ...

Enterprise Data

• Distributed extensibility
• Self-documentation
• Loose coupling

Needs

Re-use much of LOD

working within commercial paradigms

taking full advantage of disruptive technology.

W3C Process

• Working Group
• Interest Group
• Community Group
• Mailing List

W3C Documents

• Recommendations
• Interest Group Notes
• Member Submissions
• Team Notes

Complementary technologies

• DB-oriented SPARQL, OWL world.
• Web-oriented pages of interlinked data.
• Syntheses of the two (SPARQL-able graphs of GET-able nodes).

• potential/requirements/APIs
• name resolution/resource replication
• bridging data formats
• dbs, ACLs, $$$

Logistics

• IRC: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #ledp
• Teleconference bridge: +1.617.761.6200, conference code 5337 (LEDP)
• Lunch, Dinner and snacks provided

Next

• scribe?
• Introductions