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What is the Internet?
A nice article here in The Observer by Professor John Naughton, which neatly captures much of the difficulty that many have in understanding the Internet. I do like his distinction between the Web and the Internet – the train / track analogy seems a good one, worth a go when trying to explain this to [...]
Semantic Web at ONS
I’m giving a series of talks with Paul Richards at ONS exploring what the semantic web is, and what it means to ONS. Here’s the prezi we use, but halfway through, Paul shows a BIS application then gives a great demo using the Talis platform and constructing a SPARQL query on the fly. I have [...]
Taking an architectural view of services
I’m 18 months into my research at Glamorgan Business School, and at last have reached the stage where I am doing real stuff, and collecting real feedback and data. These case studies are being conducted at two different government departments, and I’ve plans for one or two more during this year. I’ve developed an approach to [...]
Linked Data and Statistics
Semantic web seems to be dominating my thinking at work at the moment. Paul Richards and I attended the SDMX Expert Group in Geneva last week, and we presented the outcome of the Sunningdale Workshop we organised on Publishing Statistics in SDMX and the Semantic Web to the SDMX community. We received some very positive [...]
Linked data – currently a bumpy road
So, the UK Government has made a firm commitment in its new “public data principles” to publish any “raw” dataset in linked data form in the smarter government white paper. Quite what does this mean? I tried to find a clear definition of “raw” data. In almost all definitions you will find on the Internet, [...]