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Know Thyself
One of the reasons that I became interested in Linked Data was not the opportunities it gave external developers to do cool stuff with OU data; it was the opportunities it gave us at the OU to do stuff...
View ArticleResults of the KMi Linked Data Application Competition
One of the biggest worry we had at the beginning of LUCERO was that we were promising quite a lot: we were not only going to establish the processes to expose public university data as linked data, but...
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ROLE Widget Consumes Linked Data
This is a guest post by Alexander Mikroyannidis, a researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, discussing the use of http://data.open.ac.uk to identify related material to...
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wayOU – mobile location tracking app using linked data
As can be seen from the few previous posts on this blog, one of our main focus at the moment is, in addition to trying to handle with all the data that we still have to process, to develop applications...
View ArticlePRONOM and linked data
PRONOM is the national archive’s technical registry, and is currently being `transformed’ to be exposed as linked data. We can of course only welcome such an initiative and be very enthusiastic about...
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What to ask linked data
Publishing linked data is becoming easier, and we now come across new RDF datasets almost everyday. One question that keeps being asked however is “what can I do with it?” More or less everybody...
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Final Product Post: Tabloid
This is the final, formal post of the LUCERO JISC project. However, be reassured, this is far from the last post. More and more activities around linked data are happening at the Open University, and...
View ArticleLUCERO extension
We have had quite a few nice new things happening in relation to LUCERO recently, including some updates of the code, initial work around aggregating data from multiple universities, a paper at a...
View ArticleTransforming Legacy Data into RDF – Tools
As part of the extension of the project, I was talking recently with Sean Bechhofer, who is currently looking at doing some linked data for the University of Manchester. A part of the discussion was...
View ArticleThe Commonwealth of Learning publishes a report on Linked Data for education,...
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation including more than 50 independent sovereign states, created to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance...
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