very nice DFF - good plan and loving the diagram :)

this is much closer to what I think "synthesis" should be..

for humans to read RDF: http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/ for developers to read RDF: http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sparqlbrowser/

I've found the RDF browser really useful in seeing what the RDF I've just produced looks like. Even more useful; finding out what your RDFa actually said -- it's hard to debug visually.

PROGRAMME MANAGER STRAND UPDATE

by David F. Flanders

SCOPE

Strands covered: jiscEXPO

PAST

(1) What are the 2-3 most significant project or programme outputs over the last month?

• Project Grant Letters are getting confirmed based on marking panel recommendations:
• Project Plan Post are going up on project blogs, based on recommendations from marking panel
• DOAP form is being filled out with core project details: http://bit.ly/doapSS-jiscEXPO

(2) Are there any major lessons learned by the projects and other work you manage at the moment, that weren’t described above?

• As these projects are just starting out all of this is conjecture and not established at patterns, though some initial discussions around use of identifiers as human readable URLs 1?, potential of a data.ac.uk domain to assure identifiers persist and discussion around skills development for developers in coding with RDF.
• DFF has agreed with UKOLN to put Adrian Tribe in charge of reading all project blogs on a week by week basis and then logging any emerging patters in a 'change log' as described here: http://

1?= Chris Gutteridge after having several chat about the importance of readability of RDF has produced this "quick and dirty" rdf browser/reader: http://code.google.com/p/jiscexpo/wiki/ChangeLog

(3) What are the key risks facing the work you manage at the moment? What are you doing about them?

• the ban on ease of hiring consultants and spending money on communications has made it more difficult to get work done and slowed things down significantly, this is affecting everything from events to synthesis activity.

4. What impact has the work you manage had on the sector recently?

• linkeddata continues to be on the discussion agenda which means more stakeholders are concerned with this activity. Examples of this include the recent linkeddata meeting at the British Library, see post: http://code.google.com/p/jiscexpo/wiki/LinkedDataInLibraries
• Peter Murrey Rust has started in on an campaign to "reclaim our scholarship" which includes opening up bibliographic and citation data so that anyone can produce information based on that data.

6. What have been the most important stakeholder relationships over the past 2-3 months, and why?

For example, “I’ve been working closely with RLUK because I’m pulling together some lessons from JISC projects about ejournal archiving for a session I’m doing at their conference”

• Discussion with: OKFN, Talis, data.gov.uk, MLA, BBC regarding a potential linkeddata wide programme event around the themes of space and time as programmatic ways to conceptualise data for anyone to understand. Ideally this both acts as a 'programme meeting' for jiscEXPO and a townmeeting for upcoming jiscGEO work. Hoping to hold this event near November 5th.

FUTURE

7. What key milestones can you see for the work you manage in the next 2-3 months (or more), including conferences, project end dates, review points, etc?

• getting the projects started and meeting with each of them to establish the baseline and changeLog work so synthesis activity can get underway, see link above.

8. What key programme-level communications activities are planned for the next 2-3 months?

• No explicit communication activity going on, due to HEFCE ban.

9. Any projected over / under –spends on either core or capital budgets associated with your work areas at the moment?

• n/a

10. Anything else you’d want to put to the IE team for discussion, awareness, advice, decision, etc?

• n/a

Need "risk assessment" on project blogs to recognise the risk in being a project manager and taking the project off course <- no.1 risk in projects is the project manager themselves: http://odaesa.com/articles/215

data.ac.uk

From: David FLANDERS To: JISC e-Infrastructure Team Sent: Thu Jul 15 07:55:56 2010 Subject: data.ac.uk discussion for team meeting

As the jiscEXPO projects have started to get going there has already been a discussion around the need for place where URIs should be for the long term 1?. Primarily this discussion is around URIs that represent vocabulary terms, for example having a URI that represents each composers throughout time:

http://composers.data.ac.uk/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

Having a URI to identify a composers is nothing new (nor special as DBpedia does it in the linkeddata world for us already:

http://dbpedia.org/page/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

However, the JISC projects that have been funded under jiscEXPO 2? are going beyond the basic links and data provided in the current linkeddata web 3? to provide more links and more in dept machine readable content that is richer in terms of association and ability to define specific topics. This is of course wonderful for Academia as vo-cabularies are arguably our primary intellectual business. However the problem lies in the fact that we want vocabularies (and their representative URIs) to be around for a long time (at the minimum decades, with potential arguments for centuries). JISC projects are short in this context and while there will be excellent work done by the projects to provide URIs with very rich links listed at the vocabulary URIs there is the danger of losing all their hard work if we leave them to have the data hosted on a commercial domain: http://domain.com/Johann_Sebastian_Bach

We can rent the above domain address for a couple of years (about 10 quid per year) but after that who will make sure it is around let alone maintained for use (e.g. a server at the end of this URI serving up data)?

The question is then a curatorial (what server is the data on) and preservation (what domain adress is used) one. The question is of course multiple choice, should projects:

a.) buy their own domain name and server to host the URIs upon http://domain.com/Johann_Sebastian_Bach b.) use their colleges domain name to both host and serve their data from http://soton.ac.uk/ontologies/composers/Johann_Sebastian_Bach c.) Utilise another already existing service to trust their information to, http://freebase.com/composers/Johann_Sebastian_Bach d.) acquire their own domain name from Janet to host data upon: http://composers.ac.uk/Johann_Sebastian_Bach e.) have the data hosted in a central spot by people in the know: http://data.ac.uk/composers/Johann_Sebastian_Bach f.) a combination of the above: where to host in terms of URI rental and how to serve as in what spinning desk to keep the information on so it can be used on the Web.

Much appreciated for any thoughts as this will continue to be a topic that will be discussed both in terms of technology and policy.

1?= http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2010/07/12/data-uris-permanence/ 2?= http://code.google.com/p/jiscexpo 3?= http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

To RB: Also really like your point that "yes data needs to be about persistence" but more importantly it needs to be about "re-use and development"! <-essential we don't allow it to be a silo!!!

Synthesis Liaison Task/Days = 44 days in Total

• Read over jiscEXPO project blog posts and record emerging themes as and when these are identified. Comment on project blog posts to acknowledge reading - 16 days
• Synthesise emerging themes. Produce and publish blog posts on emerging themes - 19 days
• Support programme manager in commissioning an evaluation/communications consultant - 1 days
• Attendence at JISC programme meetings - 3 days
• Attend and report on relevant Linked Data meetings and conferences. Reports delivered as blog posts - 5 days

Introductory Synthesis Liaison blog post now up http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-ie/blog/2010/09/30/jiscexpo-programme-synthesis/

Introduced myself to #chaliced and posed question re Vision of Britain: http://chalice.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2010/06/10/chalice-aims-objectives-outcomes/. Commented and asked question re. issues: http://chalice.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2010/08/20/visualisation-of-some-early-results/

Introduced myself to #fishdelish and requested blogging of issues and themes http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/2010/06/fishdelish-aims-and-objectives/

Note: above posts all awaiting moderation

Attempted to post to http://jiscobib.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/welcome-to-the-open-bibliography-project/ but didn't seem to work. Project posts not up yet.

Same problem as above with #jiscopencite. Have emailed Ben O'Steen

Posted introductory comment on #linkbrainz http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/rdfa-test-server-online

Posted introductory comment on #docsworkstexts blog http://vmr.bham.ac.uk/blog/projectPlan/project-plan/

Posted introductory comment on #lucero blog http://lucero-project.info/lb/2010/06/lucero-aims-objectives-and-final-outputs-of-the-project/comment-page-1/#comment-463

Posted hello comment on #musicnet blog http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2010/06/22/aims-objectives-and-final-outputs/. Went to a blank page, so not sure if worked or not

Posted hello on #sailsproject http://sailsproject.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/aims-objectives-and-final-outputs-of-the-project/. Went to a blank page, so not sure if worked or not.

Realised have been looking at wrong Sails blog. Needs listing at http://code.google.com/p/jiscexpo/wiki/sailsproject.

Have made hello comment and requested info on the workshop mentioned at http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/?p=48

Looking into producing a "google chrome" style comic book but for linkeddata, so more examples that could act as lessons in that comic book the better: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Comment not appeared on #musicnet http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2010/06/22/aims-objectives-and-final-outputs/. Have emailed MC Schraefel

#lucero blog issue now sorted

Posted to #luceroproject to http://lucero-project.info/lb/2010/10/first-version-of-data-open-ac-uk/ Oct 19th :

"Hi LUCERO People.

You're making great progress here. Good to see.

It all looks like it's going smoothly. Any snags, issues, quick wins to report at this stage? I'm personally involved in the LOCAH project, and we've found challenges in modelling the data for starters. There's more on our experiences at http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2010/09/22/creating-linked-data-more-reflections-from-the-coal-face/. I'd be interested to know if you've had any of the same sort of issues, or any different ones?

We're very keen to identify any common themes that emerge across the projects so we can get as much learning from the programme as possible. Please keep us informed on what's working and what isn't.

Cheers, Adrian JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison"

DFF wrote report from site visit with the luceroproject <-- see bottom of page.

Some use cases provided by #sailsproject http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/?p=84

Have commented and asked how the general modelling and expose is getting on

Still can't post comment to #musicnet blog. Have replied to Joe Lambert with OS and browser details

Nothing new since last pass on Oct 19 from #lucero, #locah and #docsworkstexts

Have posted comment on #linkbrainz blog requesting more info on the potential implications for scalability and performance resulting from "a whopping 117.6 billion pages of RDFa!!!" http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/how-many-musicbrainz-pages-will-have-rdfa

Posted comment to #linkbrainz "I wonder if your experiences with implementing D2R would provide useful lessons for the other JiscEXPO projects and the LD community generally? Might be worth a presentation somehere?" http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/getting-started-linkedbrainz-d2r-mappings

FishDelish? blog seems to have disappeared.

No change on #jiscopenbib since previous report 1st Oct.

Noticed comment above made on #linkedbrainz Nov 01 hasn't appeared. No new posts since last report

No change with #docsworkstexts since previous report. Most recent blog post dated 14th September

No new posts on #lucero blog since previous report. Last blog post dated 11 Oct

Posted comment to #sailsproject http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/?p=93 acknowledging work so far and asking for an update on modelling/expose progress

Have now covered the backlog of posts for JISCOpenBib going back to start of project. Have commented on URI patterns http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2010/11/16/identifying-the-things-uri-patterns-for-the-hub-linked-data/

Had a very quick pass of all blogs yesterday to feed into synthesis update posts. Will be discussing with DFF today

.... realised haven't in fact quite covered the backlog of posts for JISCOpenBib. Still some meaty ones to check out.

Programme Lessons Communication

Have started to discuss what the "prog comm" (aka programme communication "thing" / strategy) should be with Andy/Simon. The aim of the programme communication is to inform anyone who is in charge (manager) of a website or webpages what linkeddata is, a kind of "linkeddata for dummies". To make this case we will look to create a simple "guide" that will both explain linkeddata in simple terms and then provide real world use cases for what linkeddata can achieve. We have proposed the following use cases need to be gathered:

Commented on Sails project asking how things going re ontologies and RDF http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/2010/12/186/#comment-183

Suspect may not be able to post to jiscopenbib blog. Have just tried to post to http://openbiblio.net/2010/11/22/querying-the-british-national-bibliography/. Didn't say anything about moderation, so will have to see.

Attempted to post "Hi.

All sounding good here. We're looking to link to wikipedia on Locah project, but have been finding it quite challenging to get useful results. How've you been finding it? Which dataset have you found works best to link to?

Adrian JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison"

to http://openbiblio.net/2010/12/06/jisc-openbibliography-development-ideas/ but seemed to disappear into the ether. Finding problems posting to quite a few JiscEXPO blogs :(

Posted comment on Music net http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2010/12/09/performance-usability-improvements/

Hi Jo

Good to see these improvements. I did mention the alignment tool in my recent synthesis round-up http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/jisc-ie/blog/2011/01/13/jiscexpo-emerging-themes/. We've certainly had alignment problems on Locah! We're currently trying to align names from the Archives Hub (www.archiveshub.ac.uk) with names from DBPedia, LCSH and VIAF (http://viaf.org/), so we can create owl:sameAs, skos:exactMatch or skos:closeMatch links in our data. Do you know if the alignment tool could help us with this?

Adrian Stevenson Locah Project Manager and JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison

Posted comment to Musicnet http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2011/01/19/musicnet-uri-scheme-and-linked-data-hosting

"Hi Daniel

Really comprehensive post, thanks. Most of the other JiscEXPO projects have been thinking about the issues of domains and URI patterns as well. There was some discussion on the Sails project blog at http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/2010/12/where-should-the-data-go/. data.blah.ac.uk seems to have established itself as a convention. On Locah we're trying to follow the govt's URI patterns guidance (http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/designing-URI-sets-uk-public-sector.pdf), i.e. using root/id/ for the 'thing' URIs 303 redirected to root/doc/ for the documents about the things which is then content negotiated to /doc.html, /doc.rdf etc as per the guidelines.

Thanks for the info on benefits too. This is all very important for the synthesis.

Cheers, Adrian

Adrian Stevenson Locah Project Manager and JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison"

Posted comment to Musicnet http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2011/01/19/musicnet-uri-scheme-and-linked-data-hosting

"Hi Daniel … I also meant to point you to our Locah blog post in URIs - http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2010/11/16/identifying-the-things-uri-patterns-for-the-hub-linked-data/"

Not certain these are getting through Adrian

Some mention of 'dirty data' issues and also the LD benefit of resulting data cleaning on LUCERO blog. Posted comment http://lucero-project.info/lb/2010/11/publishing-oro-as-linked-data/

"Hi Owen

Just reading back through some posts here. This is def one to file under the 'dirty data' issues log in the synthesis, which, not unsurprisingly, comes up a fair bit. Good to have something for the Linked Data benefits, i.e. data cleaning. Ta for the info

Ade Stevenson JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison"

Useful stuff on Lucero blo at http://lucero-project.info/lb/2010/12/putting-linked-data-to-work-a-developers-perspective/:

Issue - Steep learning curve, Skills gap. Benefits - Availability of multiple data formats, Ease of delivery to multiple formats. Economies 'less effort, less time on dev, ie. cheaper to dev'.

Comment posted: "Great post Liam. Some really interesting and useful stuff here. I think many of the projects have found the learning curve a tough one. I know we have on Locah ( see http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2010/09/22/creating-linked-data-more-reflections-from-the-coal-face/ and http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2010/12/01/assessing-linked-data/ for more on our own experiences).

It's also great that you point out some the positives of Linked Data, as many seem keen to knock it and say how difficult it is. Clearly you acknowledge that the learning curve is steep, so it's good that you feel it's been worthwhile. I'm very interested in the benefits of LD you mention, mainly speeding up development to different platforms, and that "don’t need to look up the syntax of a new API call every time you want new information". Cheers, and keep the posts coming. Very useful for us synthesisers :)

Ade Stevenson Locah Project Manager and JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison"

Locah Nothing new on blog since last report. Last post 1 Dec 2010.

Linkbrainz Nothing new on blog since last report. Last post 29 Oct 2010.

#docsworkstexts Nothing new on #docsworkstexts. Last post 14 Sep 2010

JiscOpenCite? Nothing new on blog since last report. Last post 21 Oct 2010

Fishdelish - LD browsers issue highlighted at http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/2010/second-fishing-expedition-data-explorer-and-disco/

Comment: Hi Bijan

It looks like there’s some useful info here. I was slightly confused the post. It looks like you’ve gone for a mini survey of Linked Data browsers? Or was there another point you were intending to get across in this post? Your conclusion seems to be that the browsers fail on their promises. Have I got that right? A common criticism of Linked Data is that there’s no ‘killer apps’ and you seem to be confirming there’s issues here.

I’m also not sure what the ‘LOD Browser Switch’ is all about. Are you able to elucidate”

CHALICE. Left comment re location info in the data - http://chalice.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/01/06/linked-data-for-places-any-advice

"Hi Jo

We will be including location info in our Locah Archives Hub data. It's essentially info on where archive holdings are kept. We're hoping this will help us with our visualisation prototype for starters, but of course it should be very useful generally. We're using geonames and the Ordnance Survey data too, but I'm not sure we've identified anything else. Pete Johnston gives a bit more info on our blog http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2010/11/08/some-more-things-some-extensions-to-the-hub-model/."

Pass of all JiscEXPO new blog posts and comments completed today. Comments left, and issues and opps/benefits noted.

After this round of blog passes, I still seem to have issues posting to MusicNet? and JiscOpenBib?. I have emailed Jo Lambert at Musicnet about the problem.

Adrian

Raised issue on licensing with Lucero http://lucero-project.info/lb/2010/11/publishing-oro-as-linked-data/comment-page-1/#comment-4101

Left comment on Chalice blog and issue of data ownership noted.

"Hi Stuart

Thanks for this. I was interested by the "many depositors prefer to be certain that they are responsible for creating, and signing off, the descriptive metadata for their records." comment. Something I hadn't really thought about. Another thing for us to log for the JiscEXPO synthesis. Have you got strategies to work with this situation?

Cheers, Adrian JiscEXPO Synthesis Liaison"

Fishdelish Triple store now available. http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/2011/triplestores-looking-back/

Some useful stuff on formatting Sparql at http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/2011/fishdelish-species-pages/

No specific issues to report, but good to see the data out. Note haven't used Cool URIs for semantic web or UK Govt URI pattern as far as I can see. May be out-of-box D2R Server behaviour. (eg http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/species/species.php?uri=http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/rdf/species/Rhincodon/typus).

Have left comment to this effect.

OpenCite? Last four SPAR ontologies now avail and they've produced a website based around the SPAR ontologies: http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/new-web-site-for-the-spar-ontologies/ Wonder how Fabio fits with Bibo? Wonder if any use of these yet? Comment left asking about use of the ontols

http://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/using-lode-for-ontology-visualization/ Mentions using LODE for ontology visualisation.

No real mention of issues identified.

Linkbrainz. Nothing new since last pass of blog posts

Docworkstext - No updates since last pass of blog posts

Lucero - No updates since last pass of blog posts

LOCAH http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2011/02/14/locah-lightening-at-dev8d/ Adrian Stevenson gave lightening talk at Dev8d.

http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2011/02/16/two-changes-to-the-model-and-some-definitions/ Some refinements to the model and human-readable definitions for the classes in the model.

Benefits and issues - Vocabularies: Knowledge and dissem, skills, Sustainability of local vocab terms, Sustainability of Vocabs, best practice:

http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/2011/03/08/describing-the-things-the-rdf-terms-used-part-1/ The post outlines outlines the vocabularies LOCAH are using:

Using existing RDF vocabularies - "As far as possible, we’ve tried to make use of existing, deployed RDF vocabularies." "However, where we’ve seen a need to express a notion that is not well addressed by an existing vocabulary, we have defined the additional classes and properties required and provided URIs for them as a small “local” LOCAH RDF vocabulary. At this point in time, I consider most of these terms something of a “work in progress”, and likely to be revised (or even dropped completely) before the end of the project. "

Discovering Appropriate Vocabularies - "Most of my knowledge of existing RDF vocabularies has come from lurking on good old-fashioned mailing lists, particularly the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group list and the Linked Open Data list." "In similar territory, Semantic Stackoverflow provides a “question-and-answer”-style service, though it tends to have a fairly technical focus. Another useful source is to look at actual linked data datasets, particularly those which are in a similar “domain” to the one you’re working in and cover similar resource types, and check out what vocabularies they are using." "One service (with quite general coverage) which I have occasionally found useful is Schemapedia" "I admit that the discovery of RDF vocabularies is still something of a challenge, and I continue to come across useful things I’d missed. And having found something potentially useful often raises further questions: Is the vocabulary stable or still being developed? Is it described following “modern” good practice for RDF vocabularies? Is it being managed/curated?" "I regularly find myself referring to the series of posts by Jeni Tennison on creating linked data. In this context, the fifth post on “Finishing Touches” is particularly relevant"

Musicnet.

Output - Workshop http://musicnet.mspace.fm/blog/2011/02/11/music-linked-data-workshop/ Workshop announced.

Sails. http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/2011/02/first-checked-and-validated-records-now-in/ Shows they have XML, but no sign of RDF as yet.

http://sailsproject.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/2011/03/sails-on-course/ Notes "relatively early days … so its would be a little premature to come up with some substantive findings or recommendations based on our experience so far." Post mentions draft of an ontology, but mainly says what they will be doing. Not much to see yet.

OpenBib?. http://openbiblio.net/2011/02/16/open-bibliographic-data-and-dev8d/ Held a challenge at Dev8d. Details at http://openbiblio.net/challenge. Some info on the entries in a later post.

http://openbiblio.net/2011/02/16/using-the-bibliographica-sparql-api/ Mentions a 'sparql API on bibliographica' but post doesn't give any info on what Bibliographica is.

http://openbiblio.net/2011/02/16/getting-bibliographica-content-via-jquery/ Contains a paste of a jquery, but not doesn't explain how to use or by who.

LD Focus. Addressing Skills Gap - http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/02/25/institutional-locations-as-linked-data-through-google-refine/ A really useful post on "using Google Refine with the RDF extension by DERI to publish their collection of data about institutions and projects as Linked Data" "The process is really quick, and the results are exported into RDF/XML or the more readable Turtle format." "Refine does other interesting things – provides a “Reconciliation service” which attempts to automagically make links to Wikipedia entries, via Freebase. We could do worse than build a reconciliation service on top of Unlock Places, for a start." "Strengths of this approach are in low barrier to entry – knowledge of Excel and a basic grasp of RDF namespaces would be enough for anyone to get going."

Challenge - producing RDF from existing data sources http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/03/03/rdbms-to-rdf/ Reports problem using existing tools such as D2R. Have referred them to Fishdelish who have been using with comment on post.

http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/03/03/university-buildings-as-linked-data-with-scraperwiki/ More useful stuff on using ScraperWiki? and then Google Refine to extract University of Edinburgh Buildings data from web pages. "end results can be exported as a CSV which then was imported into Google Refine."

LD Focus. Comment at http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/03/03/rdbms-to-rdf:

"I've also just dug up another post on D2R mapping from one of the other #jiscexpo projects, #linkedbrainz that might be helpful http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/getting-started-linkedbrainz-d2r-mappings"

CHALICE - http://chalice.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/05/13/geo-linking-epns-to-other-sources/ "Claire Grover at LTG did some interesting map renderings of the English Place-Name Survey names that we’ve managed to link to names in geonames and the Ordnance Survey Linked Data … It’s not easy to make any firm conclusions from this but I tend to agree with Paul [Ell, of CDDA] that it would be better not to georeference smaller places (secondary-sub-townships) but instead to assign them the grid reference of the larger place they are contained in/associated with."

Fishdelish - All the posts since previous pass of blog post are providing installation instructions with a TOC at http://fishdelish.cs.man.ac.uk/2011/installation-overview/ - no issues as such to highlight here, but may be useful under skills and training gap. Some more surrounding documentation would help

LD Focus -

Skills and Training Gap help: http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/03/16/from-db-to-turtle-a-story-writ-in-perl/ "have created a snapshot of the Open Access Repository Junction “Discovery” data as Linked Data."

Skills & Training - Modelling and Finding Vocabs and Ontologies "What quickly becomes apparent is that everything needs a name-space, and there are LOADS of choices out there…. none of whom are doing exactly what we want. After some reading, some research, and a wee bit of email on a developers mailing list, this is what I’ve come up with"

Skills & Training Gap help - EDINA held a linked data learn in http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/03/18/linked-data-learn-in/ Useful stuff at http://okfnpad.org/linked-data-learnin "Some issues that arise: What vocabularies should be used?" "econciling each database to Freebase then merging all of the data sets using Google Refine. Google Refine will make a guess at the data and then present a series of close matches which can then be checked by humans looking at description, subject, identifiers etc. You can also do this semi-automatically by reconciling anything that appears to above an n% match."

Use Cases: http://ldfocus.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2011/05/19/episode-2-suncat-notes-from-initial-chat/ Addresses use cases, though I didn't find the examples all that easy to follow in truth. "One suggested usage is deriving information about the focus and specialisms of libraries … (to) the bent of universities through the holdings of their libraries"

Linkbrainz.

Skills and Training Gap - http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/linkedbrainz-eswc "LinkedBrainz?' Barry Norton, together with Chris Bizer and Denny Vrandecic, will present on the MusicBrainz? Linked Data set as part of the ESWC Summer School's Linked Open Data and Linked Services topics."

Linkbrainz released with RDFa highlighter Firefox plugin http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/linkedbrainz-live

Issue - scalability http://linkedbrainz.c4dmpresents.org/content/linkedbrainz-eswc-summer-school "A less positive, but extremely useful, piece of feedback from the event concerned the scalability of SPARQL querying via D2R, given the complicated nature of the NSG schema and the complexity of D2RQ rules required (many based on 3- and 4-way relational joins). It could clearly be seen that offering a public SPARQL endpoint via this route was not feasible."