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The DSNotify eventset vocabulary can be used to describe timely-ordered sets of events that modify resources in linked data sources. Eventsets are associated with two void:Datasets: a source and a target dataset. A complete eventset contains all events that -- when executed in the proper order -- change the source datasets into the target dataset.

The very nature of RDF makes it somewhat annoying to work with. RDF data is always going to be a kind of frankenstein's data monster, patched together from bits and pieces that can just about be made to fit together.

LinkedGeoData is an effort to add a spatial dimension to the Web of Data / Semantic Web. LinkedGeoData uses the information collected by the OpenStreetMap project and makes it available as an RDF knowledge base according to the Linked Data principles. It interlinks this data with other knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative.

Dave (Reynolds) raised the point that lists are an integral part of most APIs. This is another thing that we know we need to address in the UK linked government data project, but are unsure as yet how best to do so.

No matter what user interfaces will drive the user interaction, the dream of being able to search the web of data following relational connections (say, somehow looking for “the height of all towers located in Paris”) dies miserably when it’s powered by a vastly sparse and unconnected graph.

We introduce pushback, a method that enables writing changes to non-RDF sources such as flickr, Twitter, Amazon, etc. from an RDF document.

The video explains our motivation, the architecture and the interaction between the components as well as RDForms. A demo (for Jira, a professional issue tracker system) is included in this video, where we show how to create, deploy and use an RDForm.

See esw.w3.org/topic/PushBackDataToLegacySources for further information.

(...) genealogy seems to be an obvious application of an RDF ontology and the Semantic web. I've investigated making use of RDF and the Semantic Web for Family History. The results of my investigation are here on this web page. In my work, I created a program to translate files in GEDCOM format to XML. I also wrote several stylesheets which translated the data into a new format GEDCOM XML, HTML, and RDF.

Classical Music Navigator

Structured data about classical composers and their network of influence

Tal4Rdf (or T4R) is a template language for presenting RDF data into other formats. T4R is based on Zope’s Template Attribute Language. This makes it well suited to produce HTML or any XML-based format (see why). But it can also produce non-XML formats.