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Pourquoi utiliser le Web de données?

Il y a quelque jours j’ai eu le plaisir, et la chance, de participer à la série de webinaires organisés par l’AIMS. L’objectif que je m’étais fixé pour ma présentation (en Français) intitulée “Clarifier le sens de vos données publiques avec le Web de données” était de démontrer l’avantage de l’utilisation du Web de données du point de vue du fournisseur de données, en passant par le consommateur. Faire une présentation sans aucun retour de la part de l’auditoire était une expérience intéressante que je renouvèlerait volontiers si une nouvelle occasion se présente. Surtout si c’est Imma et Christophe qui sont aux commandes! grâce à eux tout était parfaitement organisé et le wébinaire s’est déroulé sans problème

Si vous voulez voir si cette présentation atteint son but, les diapositives sont disponible sur Slideshare:

Une autre copie de cette présentation est disponible sur le compte SlideShare de l’AIMS.

Behind the scenes of a Linked Data tutorial

Last week, on the afternoon of November 22, I co-organized a tutorial about Linked Data aimed at researchers from digital humanities. The objective was to give a basic introduction to the core principles and to do that in a very hands-on setting, so that everyone can get a concrete experience with publishing Linked Data.

Everyone listening to Clement speaking about Linked Data and RDFa

To prepare this event, I teamed up with Clement Levallois (@seinecle) from the Erasmus University in Rotterdama. He is an historian of science with interests in network analysis, text processing and other compartments of the digital humanities. He had only heard of Linked Data and was eager to learn more about it. We started of by preparing together a presentation skeleton and the setup for the hands-on. During this he was shouting every time I was using a word he deemed too complex (“dereferencing”, “ontology”, “URI”, “reasoning”, …). In the end, “vocabulary” and “resource” are most probably the two most technical concepts that made it through. Then I took care of writing the slides, and he simplified them again before the tutorial. It is also him that presented them, I was just standing on the side all time.

The result: a researcher from digital humanities explaining to a full room of fellow researchers what Linked Data is and how it can be useful to them. Everyone was very interested & managed to annotate some HTML pages with RDFa, thereby creating a social network of foaf:knows relations among the individuals they described We concluded the tutorial by plotting that network using a tool that Clement developed.

This was a very efficient and interesting collaboration! For those interested in what we did, all the material is available on dropbox and the presentation is on slideshare:

First release of SemanticXO!

Here it is: the first fully featured release of SemanticXO! Use it in your activities to store and share any kind of structured information with other XOs. The installation procedure is easy and only requires and XO-1 running the operating system version 12.1.0. Go to the GIT repository and download the files “setup.sh” and “semanticxo.tar.gz” somewhere the XO (these files are in the directory “patch_my_xo”). Then, log in as root and execute “sh setup.sh setup”. The installation package will copy the API onto the XO, setup the triple store and install two demo activity. Once the procedure is complete, reboot the XO to activate everything.

The XO after the installation of SemanticXO

There are two demo activities which are described in more details on the project page. Under the hood SemanticXO provides an API to store named graphs containing description of one or several resources. These named graphs are marked with an author name, a modification date and, eventually, a list of other devices (identified by their URI) to share the graph with. This data is used by a graph replication daemon which every 5 minutes browse the network using Avahi, find other triple stores, and download a copy of the graphs that are shared with it. The data backend of the mailing activity provides a good example of how the API is used.

A week to speak about Open Development

Reblogged from The World Wide Semantic Web:

This year Open Knowledge Festival took place in Helsinki between from September 17 and September 22. Victor de boer and myself (Christophe Guéret) went to this huge (1000 participants from 100 nations) conference to speak about Open Development, one the 13 topic streams of this event around "data revolution".

There are several meanings one can find for Open Development.

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