Description:
Ordnance Survey is Great Britain’s national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and individuals. OS OpenData is the opening up of Ordnance Survey data as part of the drive to increase innovation and support the “Making Public Data Public” initiative. As part of this initiative Ordnance Survey has published a number of its products as Linked Data. Linked Data is a growing part of the Web where data is published on the Web and then linked to other published data in much the same way that web pages are interlinked using hypertext. The term Linked Data is used to describe a method of exposing, sharing, and connecting data via URIs on the Web….
Let’s use topic maps to connect subjects that don’t have URIs.
Subject mapping exercise:
- Connect 5 subjects from the Domseday Book
- Connect 5 subjects from either The Shakespeare Paper Trail: The Early Years and/or The Shakespeare Paper Trail: The Later Years
- Connect 5 subjects from WW2 People’s War (you could do occurrences but try for something more imaginative)
- Connect 5 subjects from some other period of English history.
- Suggest other linked data sources and sources of subjects for subject mapping (extra credit)