Hi, everyone. It's been a while since I've done any updates about
data.ac.uk, so here's a little one which makes me very excited.
A good number of universities have now produced auto-discoverable
profiles which include the "Linking You" terms. This is now on the way
to being a very useful resource. <http://opd.data.ac.uk/docs/key-pages>
Let me give you two new views of the data you've made available.
BROWSE BY TERM
Our developer, Andrew Milsted, has added a new section to the website
which lets you turn things on their head and list all the pages for a
term, from all participating organisations:
<http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/linkingyou>
And also the core terms <http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/core> and social
media accounts <http://opd.data.ac.uk/dataset/social> .
We have a wider range of social media account data available from the
open data on <http://observatory.data.ac.uk/> but this data is scraped,
and non authoritative. The data on the OPD site is from an authoritative
statement.
For many years I worked closely with communications staff who needed to
keep tabs on what our peers are doing. I'm sure every other comms dept.
does that too. If nothing else, these pages might help streamline a
chore and save us all repeating the same task of looking up key pages on
each other's sites again and again!
USING THE OPD AS A SEMANTIC SITEMAP
This is a very hacky demo I've produced, which could easily be refined
or recoded for your purposes. Code available on request, but given a
couple of libraries you could easily reimplement this in house.
<http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php>
This little demo takes the homepage of an organisation and a linking-you
term. It then looks up the OPD on the fly and links you to the page if
it exists. Long term this could be a powerful way of linking within the
sector and beyond without fear of broken links. You could either have
your own system which downloaded and cached OPDs so knew when pages
moved at other universities, or we could maybe run a .ac.uk semantic
linking service. Either or both.
I'm excited to share this concept with the community as I'm hoping it
gets people's imaginations going and they come up with novel ideas which
we'd never have dreamed up by ourselves.
Here's a bunch of examples:
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.aber.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.bucks.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.cam.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.exeter.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.liv.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=research&homepage=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.aber.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.bbk.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.bucks.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.cam.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.exeter.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.liv.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/OPDLib/examples/resolve.php?term=contact&homepage=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/
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Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
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