Linked Data Elements at COL

Interacting with example data in a linked data environment with emphasis on the SPARQL endpoint

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Linked Data Demo

Initial Primary Data Sources

  • Age Models (chronos.org (derived from Janus))
  • Image Strips (LDEO (derived from Janus))
  • Janus Drill Down LD demo app (hosted at COL (derived from Janus))
  • Log Files (hosted at LDEO)

Other graphs in the pipeline

  • Foram data (CHRONOS hosted Foram data)
  • Supporting vocabularies
  • Timescale data (CHRONOS hosted)
  • SIOC from web sites
  • Reports
Linked Data Demo

Data Flow

Approaches for Demo Phase

  • Web apps generate graphs for pages and also "bulk" graphs
  • These graphs are "scrapped" from the app or in the case of "bulk" graphs simply downloaded
  • Then loaded into the SPARQL server using application tools

Approaches for Production

  • Data pull (harvesting)
  • Data push (applications push changes (diffs) up)
APP

SPARQL interface

SPARQL end point SPARQL is a topic unto itself! 

SELECT ?uri 
WHERE {
   ?uri skos:related <http://oceandrilling.org/codices/lsh/171/1049/C> .
}
		
PREFIX chronos: <http://www.chronos.org/loc-schema#>
SELECT ?uri ?long ?lat
WHERE {
     ?uri skos:related <http://oceandrilling.org/codices/lsh/171> .
     ?uri geo:long ?long .
     ?uri geo:lat ?lat .
}
Linked Data Demo

Content Negotiation

Approaches for Testing

  • The URI represents the resource, but not necessarily the representation
  • The representation can be negotiated
  • Typically at least XHTML and RDF

Examples of negotiating URI's (Accept:Vary)

  • curl --header "Accept:text/html" http://iodp-usio.org/imagestrips/stripset/_10xx/1055C/1055C01H_1 -o ~/Desktop/test.html
  • curl --header "Accept:application/rdf+xml" http://iodp-usio.org/imagestrips/stripset/_10xx/1055C/1055C01H_1 -o ~/Desktop/test.rdf
  • curl --header "Accept:image/jpeg" http://iodp-usio.org/imagestrips/stripset/_10xx/1055C/1055C01H_1 -o ~/Desktop/test.jpeg
Linked Data Demo

Comments

A few items to consider

  • Linked Data != Semantics (but it's a good starting point)
  • We didn't review RDFa and other important aspects
  • Work on relations built on concepts and resources (http://github.com/fils/Ocean-Leadership-Vocabulary)
  • Searches can be "federated" and results point to N authoritative resolvers
  • The interface/search can be exposed via web arch and exposed by many clients or means
  • Full web arch so we can cache, proxy, 303 etc.
  • What goes in the graph and what doesn't?
  • Interfacing to other ID mechanisms like DOI's
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Errata