LATC and the Data Cloud

Dr. Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway

6 June 2012

Realising and Exploiting the EU data cloud

European Data Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark

LATC consortium

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Ireland

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands

Freie Universität Berlin Germany

Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Germany

Talis Systems United Kingdom

Objectives

•  Increase the number and quality of links between LOD datasets���

•  Support institutions and individuals with Linked Data publication and consumption ���

•  To seed the EU data cloud���

Objective I

•  Increase the number and quality of links between LOD datasets���

•  Support institutions and individuals with Linked Data publication and consumption ���

•  To seed the EU data cloud���

24/7 Interlinking Platform

https://github.com/LATC/24-7-platform/

24/7 Interlinking Platform

Objective II

•  Increase the number and quality of links between LOD datasets ���

•  Support institutions and individuals with Linked Data publication and consumption ���

•  To seed the EU data cloud���

Data Publication & Consumption Tools Library

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/latc/toollibrary/

Advocacy & Community Relation

•  Linked Data on the Web (LDOW) workshops at WWW

•  Standardisation at W3C

•  The Linked Data Book

•  Schema.org – Linked Data support

LDOW workshop

Standardisation at W3C

The Linked Data Book

http://linkeddatabook.com

Schema.org – Linked Data support

http://schema.rdfs.org

Objective III

•  Increase the number and quality of links between LOD datasets���

•  Support institutions and individuals with Linked Data publication and consumption ���

•  To seed the EU data cloud���

EU data cloud

http://latc-project.eu/datasets