Re: data.gov.uk ontologies

Thanks to some great work by Jeni Tennison access to these ontologies is
being improved rapidly.

Currently the URLs for the ontologies (which are not quite the ones you
list below) resolve to entries in a triple store which does make them
tedious to find your way round. Jeni is organizing them to resolve to a
more navigable view using the linked data API, those updated views
should start going live in the next couple of days.

In the meantime the source ontologies can be found as separate files
from: http://source.data.gov.uk/def/

That location has subdirectories for each of the sectors. At least
transport, education and reference are populated with others being
updated as I write.

Dave

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 14:31 -0200, Percy Enrique Rivera Salas wrote:
> Dear Dave,
> 
> I would like to know where could I get the enclosing
> ontology for :
> 
> 
>       * http://analytics.data.gov.uk/ontology/ 
>       * http://environment.data.gov.uk/ontology/ 
>       * http://finance.data.gov.uk/ontology/ 
>       * http://transport.data.gov.uk/ontology/ 
> Thanks
> 
> Percy
> 
> 2010/11/16 Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>
>         
>         On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:50 -0200, Percy Enrique Rivera Salas
>         wrote:
>         > Hello everyone
>         >
>         > I only found the educational ontology of data.gov.uk
>         (school.rdf)
>         >
>         > Anybody knows, Where could I get the other ontologies of
>         this dataset?
>         
>         
>         Which dataset, the education dataset?
>         
>         If so that then http://education.data.gov.uk/def/school/ is
>         really the
>         only relevant one.
>         
>         Which other ones did you want?
>         
>         There only two non standard ones mention in that dataset other
>         than
>         school:
>         
>         meta        http://education.data.gov.uk/def/meta/
>         - Used internally to annotate school.rdf with some additional
>         label
>         information.
>         
>         foundation  http://statistics.data.gov.uk/def/Foundation/
>         - Largely redundant and replaced by later ontologies such as
>         org:
>         
>         The schools data should be usable without either of these.
>         
>         All of the concepts of those two ontologies should resolve
>         individually,
>         e.g. [1] but an unfortunate effect of the data.gov.uk
>         practices at the
>         time, and the way the redirection to the Talis hosting works,
>         is that
>         you only get the description of a single concept back, not the
>         enclosing
>         ontology.
>         
>         If you really want these, despite all the caveats, then I can
>         post them
>         somewhere.
>         
>         Dave
>         
>         P.S. In the fullness of time we'd like to see the education
>         data updated
>         and shifted to fit in with newer data.gov.uk ontologies.
>         
>         [1] http://education.data.gov.uk/def/meta/columnName
>         
>         
>

Received on Wednesday, 17 November 2010 10:23:02 UTC