Universities and Colleges in the Giant Global Graph

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Led by Adam Cooper

Note: Please use the tag 'cetis-2009-ggg' if writing about this event.


The idea of the Giant Global Graph is an extension of the document-centred reality of the World Wide Web; it encompasses the idea that data is linked rather than just its presentation. The building block for the graph is Linked Data, a digestible incarnation of the Semantic Web and it really seems to be gaining momentum.

This session will start with a short introduction presentation (PPT) with some examples of Linked Data in practical use before breaking into smaller discussion groups to look, from the global perspective, at where our institutions fit in. They will consider:

Both teaching and learning and other activities that form part of the educational system will be in scope.

We will aim to create:

This session will dovetail with University API http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/University_API.

What Happened?

The introductory slides are available as Powepoint and ODP.

Notes from Universities and Colleges in the Giant Global Graph

Del.icio.us tagged (cetis-2009-ggg) blog posts will also appear below.

Bookmarks (Delicious)

  1. Linked Data: Where is the Low-hanging Fruit?
    Some ideas for generic tests to apply to ideas about what might make good Linked Data
  2. Time To Experiment With Dbpedia? « UK Web Focus
    Blog post from Brian Kelly@UKOLN about DBPedia
  3. Universities and Colleges in the Giant Global Graph
    Blog post arising from the session from the facilitator.
  4. Linked, open, semantic?
    Paul Walk blogs about "meme conflation".
  5. DBPedia
    About DBPedia in a human-readable form. Take a look at the facetted browser, and the datasets section (where there are some examples to follow).
  6. Getting Started with data.gov.uk, Triplr SPARYQL and Yahoo Pipes
    Tony Hirst's experiments written up on his blog
  7. Using SPARQL to visualise Linked Data
    YouTube video of Leigh Dodds from Talis showing how easy it is for a developer to create visualisations from Linked Data.
  8. Publishing Open Government Data
    W3C Draft with straightforward advice that could equally apply to NDPBs or even commercial players in the public sector space.
  9. CETIS SemTech Working Group
    The CETIS group associated with the JISC SemTech project. An open meeting is scheduled for Dec 2009.
  10. Cabinet Office - Digital Engagement Blog
  11. Semantic Structures for Teaching and Learning - CETISwiki
    Notes and position papers from the 2007 CETIS Conference session on Semantic Structures for Teaching and Learning. This session took quite a broad approach and led to the SemTech project.
  12. A Skim-read Introduction to Linked Data
    This is a little bit more technical the title suggests but still out of the technical weeds! This is in the form of slides and comes from the BBC Radiolabs blog. There is quite a lot of historical and technical background beyond what is needed to appreciate the significance of linked data. The references to the Korzybsky "map is not the territory" were particularly appealing as I come from the Institute for Educational Cybernetics and work among many Gregory Bateson readers.
  13. Linked Data - Design Issues
    Tim Berners-Lee's 4 Rules of Linked Data. Its sort-of technical but in the most part refreshingly accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of web technology.
  14. Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
    Video on TED.com
  15. Objects in this Mirror are Closer than they Appear: Linked Data and the Web of Concepts

Back to Conference 2009 Programme.

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