Re: UK Govt RDF Data Sets

Ian Davis wrote:
> Kingsley,
>
> You should address your question directly to the project organisers,
> we're a technology provider and host some of the data but it is not up
> to us when or where the dumps get shared. My understanding is that
> because this is officially sanctioned data they want to ensure that
> the provenance is built into the datasets properly. My hope and wish
> is that the commitment to making dumps available will be built into
> the guidelines the UK Government are working on. But those won't be
> issued during this month because of the election.
>   
Okay, but the need for dumps is working its way into the fundamental 
guidelines for Linked Open Data.

As you can imagine (and I have raised these concerns on the UK Govt 
mailing list a few times), this project is high profile and closely 
associated with Linked Open Data; thus, unclarity about these RDF dumps 
is confusing to say the very least.

Anyway, I am set for now, will wait and see re. what happens post 
election etc..

Kingsley
> Ian
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ian,
>>
>> While on the subject of mirrors and Linked Open Data in general.
>>
>> Do you have any idea as to the whereabouts of RDF data sets for the SPARQL
>> endpoints associated with data.gov.uk? As you can imagine, I haven't opted
>> to crawl your endpoints for the data bearing in LOD community ethos i.e.,
>>  publish dataset dump locations for SPARQL endpoints that host Linked Open
>> Data. This best practice was devised SPARQL endpoint crawling in mind.
>>
>> Example:
>> http://data.gov.uk/sparql
>>
>> Where would I get the actual RDF datasets loaded into the endpoint above?
>>
>> Here is the RPI example re. data.gov:
>>
>> http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Data.gov_Catalog_-_Complete .
>>
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen       President & CEO OpenLink Software     Web:
>> http://www.openlinksw.com
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>>
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OpenLink Software     
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Received on Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:09:56 UTC