2. Agenda
• Ten years… where’s the ‘Semantic Web’?
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• OK, but… isn’t this just about the Web?
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• If we give away our precious data, won’t people
make untrue claims?
3. Semantic Web?
• 13 years since this article
• 13 years ago, a young PhD
student is glamorised by
meeting TimBL
• 8 years ago, teaching alongside
Jim… to European PhD students
• 2 years ago teaching in Berkeley
every Summer, switch to training
BBC, Wiley, British Museum…
7. What changed?
• Stopped trying to build Semantic Web as precursor
to people wanting to use it
• Starting putting data out there so people could
incrementally build clever things
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11. More on the Web
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• This is (was?) the wrong picture
12. Two large graphs
• Goo
Google Knowledge Graph
disambiguates search entities
and provides data
Wikidata disambiguates Wikipedia
entities and provides data
13. Is this just about the Web?
• Can now include events
and people as Linked
Data in email
• Import into (different)
calendar
• Can announce music-
related events in Linked
Data and calendar
• Looking for richer model
for music for schema.org
This is now about
systems integration
15. Untrue claims?
• For years a (naive) objection to Linked Data has
been:
• “If I publish my data and give my things identifiers
(URIs), won’t people make untrue claims?”
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<http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/YCA62958>
crm:P52_has_current_owner
<http://semanticweb.org/id/Barry_Norton>
16. ResearchSpace
• a reusable set of Linked Data-based components, making up
• a platform that allows researchers to make claims (additions and changes to
GLAM data) -
• that preserves and aggregates canonical data across Museums (LAMs),
• attributes claims,
• records arguments based on
• provenanced data annotation,
• image annotation
• forum-based discussion with explicit annotation
• will allow inference over claims