PRELIDA: An introduction Carlo Meghini ISTI CNR, Pisa

Preserving Linked Data Digital Preservation Digital Preservation Linked Data Linked Data need

Outline PRELIDA – Objectives – Expectations of the Commission – Your role This Workshop The Future

Outline PRELIDA – Objectives – Expectations of the Commission – Your role This Workshop The Future

PRELIDA PREserving LInked DAta FP7 Coordination and support action ICT Digital Preservation Start date: January 1 st, 2013 Duration: 24 Months Funding: 770k

Beneficiaries Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Carlo Meghini (Coordinator) Alliance for Permanent Access – David Giaretta University of Huddersfields – Grigoris Antoniou Universitaet Innsbruck – Dieter Fensel

Beneficiaries Europeana Foundations – Antoine Isaac STI International – Alice Carpentier

PRELIDA Data economy Linked Data movement – need to preserve Linked Data Digital preservation – needs Linked Data – faces new challenges by Linked Data So far, little or no interaction between the two communities

Objectives Bridge the LD and DP communities for making the LD community aware of the existing DP results making the DP community aware of the challenges posed by LD – intrinsic features of Linked Data, including their structuring, interlinking, dynamicity and distribution.

Objectives in detail collect, organize and publish use cases related to the long-term access to LD create a comprehensive state of the art on LD and DP technologies set up a technology observatory bring together scientists and stakeholders for identifying relevant challenges and paths for addressing them in the near future draw attention of standardization bodies

Expectations of the Commission Obtain statements on the importance of preserving LD by key persons – e.g. Tim Berners Lee so as to raise awareness at the highest political levels in the Commission

Your role Resources to achieve the objectives: Working Group, that is you – stakeholders – academia – companies – std bodies

Tools Workshops – 3 of them On-line platform – Communication & Collaboration Dissemination activities – portal – workshop reports or proceedings – links with relevant projects & organizations – summer schools

What we expect you to do Detailed agenda forthcoming (end of June) Working Group – Membership – Agenda – Review (end 2013)

What we expect you to do Workshops – This workshop present results, projects, ideas discuss others’ results, projects, ideas contribute to the final report – Midterm workshop (spring 2014) Help defining the scientific structure Participate and contribute – Consolidation & dissemination workshop (end 2014) Same as above

What we expect you to do Use cases – provide or help us getting relevant use cases – collaborate in organizing the use cases Technology observatory – suggest relevant initiatives State of the art – initial (end 2013) – consolidated (end 2014)

What we expect you to do Roadmap – analysis of limitations of DP for preserving LD (Feb. 2014) – initial roadmap (Aug. 2014) – consolidated roadmap (end 2014) Standardization – suggest what std should be affected how Summer School (Oct. 2014) – suggest structure, lecturers Dissemination

The global picture

Outline PRELIDA – Objectives – Expectations of the Commission – Your role This Workshop The Future

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Outline PRELIDA – Objectives – Expectations of the Commission – Your role This Workshop The Future

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