Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

Dear LOD community, Here are some salient points about open LOD from the US .gov Todd Park, now US CTO, previously lead open health data initiatives when he was CTO for the Whitehouse ONC Office of the Nartional Coordinator for Health IT, he lead a comprehensive program to open up US health

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/10/13 12:13 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: Hashtags are Linked Data's best friend :-) That just made me think about the relation of hashtags and LOD. Is there a service that sort of transforms say all o

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Hashtags are Linked Data's best friend :-) > That just made me think about the relation of hashtags and LOD. Is there a service that sort of transforms say all of #linkeddata relevant content (from G+, Twitter and others), and publishes it

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/10/13 10:36 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: BTW -- I do like your recent value proposition articulation endeavor [1]. We just need a growing collection of contributions like that re., attacking the

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/10/13 10:22 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:45 PM, David Wood > wrote: I understand your concern, but having the White House say "machine-readable" and "open formats" is huge. Linked Data is both, so it fits. Totally agree. I

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On May 10, 2013, at 10:02, Luca Matteis wrote: > I actually think this is a issue of lack of clarity regarding Linked Data. I > didn't know anything about Linked Data around 1 year ago, and most of my > colleagues still don't understand what it is exactly, even if they are highly > technical p

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > BTW -- I do like your recent value proposition articulation endeavor [1]. > We just need a growing collection of contributions like that re., attacking > the value proposition articulation issue, from a variety of perspectives, > using a va

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:45 PM, David Wood wrote: > I understand your concern, but having the White House say > "machine-readable" and "open formats" is huge. Linked Data is both, so it > fits. Totally agree. It is huge. Of course. We all agree. But we are a "Linked Open Data" community not a

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

NOTE: Getting various US government agencies "up to speed" on providing their open data as Linked Data (tm) is a *process* that includes preparing useful/actionable best practices, accompanied by a set of relevant standards. This has been the work of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group ove

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

I actually think this is a issue of lack of clarity regarding Linked Data. I didn't know anything about Linked Data around 1 year ago, and most of my colleagues still don't understand what it is exactly, even if they are highly technical people We as a community need to spread the word in a more si

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/10/13 9:45 AM, David Wood wrote: On May 10, 2013, at 09:39, Luca Matteis > wrote: Actually I don't see Linked Data mentioned specifically. They mostly talk of Open Data and the "Project Open Data": http://project-open-data.github.io/ This interesting project a

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/10/13 9:39 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: Actually I don't see Linked Data mentioned specifically. They mostly talk of Open Data and the "Project Open Data": http://project-open-data.github.io/ This interesting project also doesn't seem to mention Linked Data, which scares me a little. As I s

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On May 10, 2013, at 09:39, Luca Matteis wrote: > Actually I don't see Linked Data mentioned specifically. They mostly talk of > Open Data and the "Project Open Data": http://project-open-data.github.io/ > > This interesting project also doesn't seem to mention Linked Data, which > scares me a

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

Actually I don't see Linked Data mentioned specifically. They mostly talk of Open Data and the "Project Open Data": http://project-open-data.github.io/ This interesting project also doesn't seem to mention Linked Data, which scares me a little. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:16 PM, David Wood wrote:

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On May 10, 2013, at 09:06, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 5/10/13 7:45 AM, David Wood wrote: >> On May 9, 2013, at 19:24, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> >>> On 5/9/13 6:23 PM, David Booth wrote: FYI. Progress! Note that they mention "machine-readable formats like CSV, XML, and JSON". Now,

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/10/13 7:45 AM, David Wood wrote: On May 9, 2013, at 19:24, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 5/9/13 6:23 PM, David Booth wrote: FYI. Progress! Note that they mention "machine-readable formats like CSV, XML, and JSON". Now, how can we get these organizations to provide that information in Tur

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On May 9, 2013, at 19:24, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 5/9/13 6:23 PM, David Booth wrote: >> FYI. Progress! Note that they mention "machine-readable formats like CSV, >> XML, and JSON". Now, how can we get these organizations to provide that >> information in Turtle, or provide mappings from

Re: Fwd: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

On 5/9/13 6:23 PM, David Booth wrote: FYI. Progress! Note that they mention "machine-readable formats like CSV, XML, and JSON". Now, how can we get these organizations to provide that information in Turtle, or provide mappings from those formats to RDF so that the semantics will be clear and

Fwd: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

FYI. Progress! Note that they mention "machine-readable formats like CSV, XML, and JSON". Now, how can we get these organizations to provide that information in Turtle, or provide mappings from those formats to RDF so that the semantics will be clear and information will be easier to link wi