Archive for March, 2011

Results 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 also to demonstrate the benefit of it through applications. Originally, we naively thought that we were going [...]

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 with our own data!  It’s not only difficult things that I wanted us to be able [...]

Example Queries

Some times ago, we started to collect example SPARQL queries of interest through twitter, using the hashtag #queryou. This page is here to keep track of the queries collected, and to discuss them. Please fell free to contribute by sending your query on twitter using the #queryou tag.
Courses available in Nigeria
This query lists all the [...]

Connecting the Reading Experience Database to the Web of Data

The Reading Experience Database (RED) project is dedicated to collecting and using evidences of reading experiences for teaching and research. The project has created a large and very rich database regarding specific situations in which a person has read a text, and how such an experience was evidenced.
RED is one of the projects from the [...]