First LOD@AIMS Webinar with Tom Baker on “Linking your resources to the Data Web”
4th December 2012 – 16:00 Rome Time
From the post:
The AIMS Metadata Community of Practice is glad to announce the first Linked Open Data @ AIMS webinar entitled Linking your resources to the Data Web. The session will take place on 4th December 2012 – 16:00 Rome Time – and will be presented by Tom Baker, chief information officer (CIO) of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).
This event is part of the series of webinars Linked Open Data @ AIMS that will take place from December 2012 to February 2013. A total of 6 specialists will talk about Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web to the agricultural information management community. The webinars will be in the 6 languages used on AIMS – English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
The objective of Linked Open Data @ AIMS webinars is to help individuals and organizations to understand better the initiatives related to the Semantic Web that are currently taking place within the AIMS Communities of Practice.
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Linking data into the Semantic Web means more than just making data available on a Web server. It means using Web addresses (URIs) in data as names for things; tagging resources using those URIs – for example, URIs for agricultural topics from AGROVOC; and using URIs to point to related resources.This talk walks through a simple example to show how linking works in practice, illustrating RDF technology with animated graphics. It concludes with a recipe for linking your data: Decide what bits of your data are most important, such as Subject, Author, and Publisher. Use URIs in your data, whenever possible, such as Subject terms from AGROVOC. Then publish your data in RDF on the Web where others can link to it. Simple solutions can be enough to yield good results.
Tom Baker of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative will be an excellent speaker but when I saw:
Tom Baker on “Linking your resources to the Data Web”
my first thoughts were of another Tom Baker and wondering how he had gotten involved with Linked Data. 😉
In the body of the announcement, a URL identifies the “Tom Baker” in the text as another “Tom Baker” than the one I was thinking about.
Interesting. It didn’t take Linked Data or RDF to make the distinction, only the <a> element plus an href attribute. Something to think about.