Nature Publishing Group releases linked data platform
From the post:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today is pleased to join the linked data community by opening up access to its publication data via a linked data platform. NPG’s Linked Data Platform is available at http://data.nature.com.
The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. In this first release, the datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are being released under an open metadata license, Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data.
NPG’s platform allows for easy querying, exploration and extraction of data and relationships about articles, contributors, publications, and subjects. Users can run web-standard SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries to obtain and manipulate data stored as RDF. The platform uses standard vocabularies such as Dublin Core, FOAF, PRISM, BIBO and OWL, and the data is integrated with existing public datasets including CrossRef and PubMed.
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More information about NPG’s Linked Data Platform is available at http://developers.nature.com/docs. Sample queries can be found at http://data.nature.com/query.
You may find it odd that I would cite such a resource on the same day as penning Technology speedup graph where I speak so harshly about the Semantic Web.
On the contrary, disagreement about the success/failure of the Semantic Web and its retreat to Linked Data is an example of conflicting semantics. Conflicting semantics not being a “feature” of the Semantic Web.
Besides, Nature is a major science publisher and their experience with Linked Data is instructive.
Such as the NPG specific ontologies. 😉 Not what you were expecting?
This is a very useful resource and the Nature Publishing Group is to be commended for it.
The creation of metadata about the terms used within articles and the relationships between those terms as well as other publications, will make it more useful still.