1. Southampton Linked Open Data
Christopher Gutteridge
iSolutions / Physical & Applied Sciences

2. "If HP knew what HP knows, we'd be three times more profitable."
Lew Platt

3. “data.ed.ac.uk has a posse!”

4. Where else?
Oxford
Edinburgh
Open University
Bristol
Lincoln

5. Where else? Oxford Edinburgh Open University Bristol Lincoln
Müenster, Germany

6. Where else? Oxford Edinburgh Open University Bristol Lincoln
Müenster, Germany
Tsinghua, China

7. Allow the bearer to publish any non-confidential data in our realm without let or hindrance.

8. University of Southampton Linked Open Data Architect
(with backing from heads of iSolutions, Communications and Finance)

9. Transparency +
Utility

10. How much did the University spend on Taxis in December 2011?

11. Where am I going?

12. Where am I going?
How can I get there?

13. Where am I going?
How can I get there?
Where do I get coffee on the way?

14. Spreadsheets vs The Semantic Web

15. Spreadsheets for The Semantic Web

16. RDF direct from application
Excel (via )
Google Docs
Triple Store
Map (KML)
Database
Spreadsheet (CSV)
RDF Document
Web Page

17. Publishing a Dataset Download Data (from Spreadsheet or Database)
If it’s not changed, do nothing. Otherwise..
Convert it to RDF (chop it into individual facts)
Publish as a Document at a Web Address
Add to our public “triple store”

18. Datasets Buildings and Places Points of Service Menus and Prices
Publications
Programmes & Modules
Bus Stops & Routes
Teaching Rooms & Facilities
Payments over £500 …
No research data?
…Not yet, that’s a different shape problem to organisational data!

19. Data Sources Buildings and Estates Transport Office Catering
Nuffield Theatre
Student Helpers
Finance
Romanse (Bus Times)
MUD
BANNER
Syllabus+
EPrints & EdShare
UniStats

20. Crowd-Sourcing

21. Crowd-Sourcing

22. Colin-Sourcing

26. Where Next?

27. Where Next? Building energy use Research Facility Equipment
Recycling Data
Live database Hookups to BANNER etc.
Greener Transport Information
Showers!

28. Where Next?
Student Contest

29. Where next? Printers and Photocopiers
Pricelists for on-campus businesses (Stile, Bookshop etc.)
Workstation Clusters & Installed Software
University Structure!
Teaching Room Availability

30. New Applications… Transport information Student Induction
Mobile Information

31. Where Next?
Catalog of Research Data
Repository of Research Datasets

32. data.southampton.ac.uk