WORKING WITH LINKED DATA & GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Workshop and Tutorial
Portland Building, University of Portsmouth, 26th April 2011
The Linked Data Web is a rapidly growing part of the Web that enables data
to be published and interlinked in much the same way as web pages are
currently published and linked. Linked Data is increasingly being used to
publish Geographic Information including Geonames, OpenStreetMap (as
OpenGeoData) and Ordnance Survey data. The current administrations in the
UK and US are actively encouraging government departments and agencies to
publish their data as Linked Data. The value and advantages of Linked Data
are also being recognised within the scientific community and the cultural
heritage sector, with an increasing number of catalogues being exposed as
Linked Data.
This workshop has already been announced, but the programme for the day
has now been finalised -- and bookings are still open! Go to:
http://www.port.ac.uk/special/gisruk2011/workshops
PROGRAMME:
10.00 Registration, greet and meet
10.25 Introduction to workshop
Humphrey Southall (Portsmouth U)
10.30 Overview: Linked Data
Richard Wallis (Talis Information Ltd)
11.00 Overview: Geographical Information as Linked Data
John Goodwin and Glen Hart (Ordnance Survey)
12.00 Linked Data Applications:
Silver Oliver (BBC)
Mike Turnill (Oracle)
Paul Watson (1Spatial)
1.00 Lunch
2.00 JISC Linked Data projects:
David Flanders (JISC)
Jo Walsh (Chalice project, Edinburgh U)
Leif Isaksen (Pelagios project, Southampton U)
3.00 Sharing knowledge:
What data do participants have, and how might they develop it as
linked data. Everyone who has not already spoken will be asked to
briefly introduce themselves and identify key challenges. Most of
the rest of the day will then be spent in smaller groups defined
through shared issues.
(4.00 Tea)
5.30 Workshop ends
The workshop is linked to the GIS Research UK conference, held in
Portsmouth on the 27th-29th, but booking is separate and the workshop is
in practice independent.
No existing knowledge of linked data or RDF is required, and an interest
in gazetteers, geographical name authorities etc is probably more relevant
than conventional GIS. For example, John Goodwin and Glen Hart have made
the Ordnance Survey's 1:50,000 Gazetteer available as linked data
(http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/tag/linked-data), the Chalice project
are developing methods to turn the Survey of English Place Names into
linked data (http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline15-4/Chalice_project.html)
and the Pelagios project is turning the Pleiades online gazetteer of over
30,000 ancient locations into linked data.
A major part of the day will be given over to working in small groups
discussing issues raised by participants.
The workshop costs £40 per person, including lunch and refreshments.
Dr Humphrey Southall
Reader in Geography/Director, GB Historical GIS,
Dept of Geography, University of Portsmouth,
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
Portsmouth PO1 3HE, UK
GBHGIS Office: 023 9284 2500
About us: www.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis
About Britain: www.visionofbritain.org.uk
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