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 linked data workshop with people from several departments of the OU, presentations, etc. In other words, the work is continuing, and quite [...]
Posts Tagged ‘jiscEXPO’
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 this blog will carry on being a primary channel for communication and discussions around these activities.
For this post, we had [...]
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 understand the general advantages of linked data, in terms data access, integration, mash-up, etc., but getting to know and use a [...]
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 that demonstrate the benefit and the potential of linked data. When we obtained data from [...]
Publishing OpenLearn metadata as linked data
OpenLearn is a website giving free access to Open University course material. We especially look at the “LearningSpace” where hundreds of HTML documents, called OpenLearn Units, are made available. These units represent very valuable resources for students as they provide entry points into specific topics, useful in particular in deciding whether or not to enroll [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Putting Linked Data to work: A developer’s perspective
This is a guest post by Liam Green-Hughes, a developer at The Open University, relating his experience with Linked Data to date, and his initial use of Linked Data from http://data.open.ac.uk.
Over the last few months I have been on a bit of a journey in the world of Linked Data. It has had highs and [...]
Publishing ORO as Linked Data
The data
One of the first data sets to be made available on http://data.open.ac.uk is the contents of ORO (Open Research Online), the Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs. The software behind ORO is EPrints, open source software developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science and is used widely for similar repositories across UK [...]
Introducing Lucero
Having made great progress with Lucero in October, with the launch of http://data.open.ac.uk, and the publication of our first data sets as Linked Data, we now have something to start talking about and showing to people. We’ve used Twitter extensively for our first wave of dissemination, including the first announcement of data available at http://data.open.ac.uk [...]