Linked Data and the Digital Public Space

This page contains the presentation and notes from my session at the Kultivate Project’s Linked Data workshop heled at HEFCE in London on Monday 12th December 2011.

I covered three themes: first, the anatomy of a good Linked Data URI; second, a simple guide to publishing some Linked Data using just a Web server (in our example, Apache) and a text edtior; finally, a little about the BBC's Digital Public Space project.

The Presentation

• The online version at Speaker Deck
• The PDF version
• The Keynote version
• The HTML version with notes

About the Digital Public Space

• Guardian interview with Tony Ageh, from November 2010
• Blog post by me, from April 2011
• Guardian Tech Weekly podcast featuring Bill Thompson, from September 2011
• Blog post by me, from October 2011
• Blog post by Bill Thompson, from October 2011
• Blog post (and speech) by Tony Ageh, from October 2011
• Blog post by Jake Berger, from October 2011

Get in touch

Jake Berger — Programme Manager

jake.berger (at) bbc.co.uk

@jakeberger

Bill Thompson — Head of Partnerships

bill.thompson (at) bbc.co.uk

@bbcbillt

Mo McRoberts — Analyst

mo.mcroberts (at) bbc.co.uk

@nevali

The example data

I modified the URIs slightly from so that they’re something I actually control — so instead of http://foobarbooks.org/, everything is under http://pres.spindle.org.uk/2011/kultivate/.

• Our item: http://pres.spindle.org.uk/2011/kultivate/items/52279a4d-1707-45e7-b19d-f5571218e9dd#item (should return HTML to you if you’re using an ordinary browser)
• The HTML document
• The RDF/XML document
• The Turtle document
• A JSON representation — not strictly Linked Data, but the kind of thing you might serve up to support legacy applications
• The .htaccess file which makes Content Negotiation work