Hi, everyone, we're working towards a 'proper' launch of data.ac.uk
soon, with some actual data!
We've been working on a few aspects.
License Information
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ixWYno68ToJdvu5hn1_DWvwmEqr83Co7Q5WDqxTi9zg/edit#
Organisation profile document; hub.data.ac.uk
This will be an RDF document which gets harvested daily by
hub.data.ac.uk from each UK university providing open data services.
We won't be strict about what must be included but will have a
suggested set of information to describe your organisation and its
open data (location, disposition, license etc.).
Ideally it'll be auto-discoverable via .well-known/openorg or a
<link rel='openorg' href='http://...' /> on the homepage, but
if that is a pain, we'll let people register the location.
Equipment.data.ac.uk
The plan is that we'll use the profile document to discover the
location and format of open data about
equipment/facilities/capabilities. Ideally as an RDF document, but
we will also accept a simple Excel/CSV format, the KitCatalogue JSON
format, and probably PURE and CERIF.
learning-provider.data.ac.uk
This already exists as a pilot. It will (initially) contain a list
of all UK universities and some basic open data about them. I aim to
augment it with some additional data I feel will be highly useful;
link-sets to education.data.gov.uk, dbpedia and ORI, plus a dataset
listing what consortia universities belong to (N8, Russell Group,
1994, Million+ etc). It won't include "informal" groupings like
oxbridge or "redbrick" as that's a can of worms. I've also used the
primary contact postcode to resolve the Easting/Northing and
Lat/Long of a useful reference point for each one which should be
useful in resolving distances on the equipment database.
CPV
This is an idea I just had today, data.ac.uk isn't the *perfect*
place to provide URIs for CPV codes, but I was considering
registering http://purl.org/cpv/ but holding the data on
cpv.data.ac.uk. If you're not familiar with these codes, they are
the codes EU public sector organisations must use when procuring
stuff.
Logo
We now have a nice new website logo (attached), and we've also
got the 'raw' version of the fractal as a vector
http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/data-ac-uk.svg.php
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Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
Graphite PHP RDF Library v1.5 released! http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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/
