Re: [uk-government-data-developers] Data Dumps at source.data.gov.uk

Hi,

Strictly speaking is the equivalent of:

http://www.data.gov/semantic/data/alpha

Not all of data.gov.uk is available as RDF. There's no single
directory of the raw files but there are typically pointers from the
dataset directory to download locations.

What we announced today was raw data dumps for the Linked Data
published by the project.

Cheers,

L.

On 24 August 2010 18:34, Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, thanks guys:  would http://www.data.gov/catalog/raw be the
> equivalent to these Dumps here in the States?
>
> Michael A. Norton
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Chris Beer <chris@e-beer.net.au>
> To: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
> Cc: public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
> Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 6:42:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [uk-government-data-developers] Data Dumps at
> source.data.gov.uk
>
> I wish we could have nice things over here too...
>
> (Seriously - thanks Ed and thanks Leigh - great links, good info :) )
>
> Chris Beer (iPhone)
>
> On 24/08/2010, at 23:21, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> This post by Leigh Dodds to the uk-government-data-developers list
>> about source.data.gov.uk should be of potential interest. It's great
>> to see a methodical approach to making data dumps for data.gov.uk
>> available.
>>
>> //Ed
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
>> Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:52 AM
>> Subject: [uk-government-data-developers] Data Dumps at source.data.gov.uk
>> To: uk-government-data-developers
>> <uk-government-data-developers@googlegroups.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just put together an initial set of data dumps for the majority
>> of the Linked Data currently being published by data.gov.uk. More
>> information on what's not included and why in a moment.
>>
>> (Disclaimer: what follows is my understanding of the current state of
>> play, so any errors/omissions then blame me :)
>>
>>
>> THE REPOSITORY
>>
>> There is a server at http://source.data.gov.uk which has been set up
>> to provide access to both data dumps and (eventually) the code used to
>> generate/convert the data. The data dumps can be found at:
>>
>> http://source.data.gov.uk/data/
>>
>> The intention is to create a repository of versioned datasets that
>> will allow anyone to mirror the data for their own use/purposes, e.g.
>> to perform local analysis or to host in your own triple store. Over
>> time this repository should become a complete archival copy of all of
>> the Linked Data that is published through data.gov.uk, complete with
>> information on the provenance of individual datasets.
>>
>> The team behind data.gov.uk are still working through a number of the
>> best practices, so right now I've simply put up copies of all the
>> currently live datasets.
>>
>>
>> HOW THE DATA IS ORGANISED
>>
>> The web archive is organised into a series of sub-directories:
>>
>> * Sector — top-level sector. E.g. as used in *.data.gov.uk
>> * Dataset — dataset directory, a short identifier for the dataset.
>> I've made some of these up at present
>> * Date-stamped directory — in format of yyyy-mm-dd.
>> * Data files — This may be an number of data files in different
>> formats. E.g the data may span a number of small files, some files may
>> be ntriples for loading into default graph and some files may be
>> nquads.
>>
>> For example, the RDF version of Edubase currently available from
>> http://education.data.gov.uk can be found here:
>>
>> http://source.data.gov.uk/data/education/edubase/2009-08-14/
>>
>> with the general pattern being:
>>
>> http://source.data.gov.uk/data/[sector]/[dataset]/[timestamp]/
>>
>> Currently only the latest versions of each dataset are being loaded
>> into the live SPARQL endpoints, but over time there will be a move
>> towards using named graphs for versioning (as described at [1]).
>>
>>
>> LINKED DATA, DATA DUMPS & SERVICES
>>
>> The sector identifier ties together the Linked Data, the data dumps,
>> and the SPARQL endpoints and other services. For example if you're
>> looking at some Linked Data, e.g.:
>>
>> http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/100866
>>
>> Then this data will be included in the SPARQL endpoint at:
>>
>> http://services.data.gov.uk/education/sparql
>>
>> The search interface at:
>>
>> http://services.data.gov.uk/education/search
>>
>> And the raw data can be found in one (or more) of the datasets accessible
>> from:
>>
>> http://source.data.gov.uk/data/education/
>>
>>
>> WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED?
>>
>> As I explained at that start of this email, not all of the Linked Data
>> being published from data.gov.uk, or the UK government is currently
>> represented in these data dumps.
>>
>> The RDF available from the legislation.gov.uk is currently only
>> available as Linked Data because its surfaced directly from the
>> website. Ditto, that published from the London Gazette website as
>> RDFa. It would be possible to regularly crawl and dump those sources,
>> but I'm not sure if there are plans to do that yet. Other departments
>> and projects may also surface their own data and data dumps.
>>
>> The other dataset that is not represented in the dump are the
>> date-time URIs available from reference.data.gov.uk, e.g. [2]. as
>> these are all algorithmically generated. I don't recommend anyone
>> crawls those :)
>>
>> Any questions then please ask.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> L.
>>
>> [1]. http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/141
>> [2]. http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/day/2010-09-24
>>
>> --
>> Leigh Dodds
>> Programme Manager, Talis Platform
>> Talis
>> leigh.dodds@talis.com
>> http://www.talis.com
>>
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