Designing Data for the

Open World of the Web

Dr Thomas Baker
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Linked Data Seminar
Florence, 18 June 2012
RDF grammar for a language of data
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URIs (and sometimes text) are the statements.
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Resource
relatedTo
ResourceA ResourceB
Resource
describedBy
ResourceA
Some text
LkAMLL LINkING 1WC kLSCUkCLS
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Resource A: Article indexed in AGRIS database
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Topic of the article
l acrididae, i.e.

One author is named

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Subject Predicate Object
Resource A has the Title

Resource A has an Author Lu Hui

Resource A has a Topic Acrididae (grasshoppers)
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 has the Title

agris:CN2009002389 has an Author Lu Hui

agris:CN2009002389 has a Topic Acrididae (grasshoppers)
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Resource A is identified by the URI http://agris.fao.org/resource/CN2009002389.
L agris:CN2009002389.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 has the Title

agris:CN2009002389 has an Author agris-author:luhui

agris:CN2009002389 has a Topic Acrididae (grasshoppers)
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The author is identified by the URI http://agris.fao.org/author/luhui.
L agris-author:luhui.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 has the Title

agris:CN2009002389 has an Author agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui has the Name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 has a Topic Acrididae (grasshoppers)
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The author agris-author:luhui has the name Lu Hui.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 has the Title

agris:CN2009002389 has an Author agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui has the Name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 has a Topic agrovoc:c_4416
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The topic is identified by the URI http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4416.
L agrovoc:c_4416.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 has the Title

agris:CN2009002389 has an Author agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui has the Name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 has a Topic agrovoc:c_4416
agrovoc:c_4416 has preferred label Acrididae (en)
agrovoc:c_4416 has preferred label (zh)
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The description of http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4416 in the AGROVOC
Concept Scheme tells us how this concept is labeled in English and in Chinese.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 has an Author agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui has the Name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 has a Topic agrovoc:c_4416
agrovoc:c_4416 has preferred label Acrididae (en)
agrovoc:c_4416 has preferred label (zh)
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1 u C 1 u8l http://purl.org/dc/terms/title.
L dct:title.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
agrovoc:c_4416 has preferred label Acrididae (en)
agrovoc:c_4416 has preferred label (zh)
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Ditto for author (i.e., creator) and topic (i.e. subject).
Name is defined in the FOAF vocabulary.
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
agrovoc:c_4416 skos:prefLabel Acrididae (en)
agrovoc:c_4416 skos:prefLabel (zh)
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A property for the preferred label of a concept has been defined
In the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) vocabulary.
The triples seen as a graph
Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
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Cn
dct:title

Lu Hui
agris-author:
luhui
dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
foaf:name
dct:creator
Resource B: AGRIS article in German
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Triples describing Resource B seen as a graph
Subject Predicate Object
agris:CH2001000179 dct:title Heuschrecken brauchen
kologische
Ausgleichsflchen
agris:CH2001000179 dct:creator agris-author:peterb
agris-author:luhui foaf:name Peter, B.
agris:CH2001000179 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
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CP
dct:title Heuschrecken
Peter, B.
agris-author:
peterb
dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
foaf:name
dct:creator
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
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Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
agris:CH2001000179 dct:title Heuschrecken brauchen
kologische
Ausgleichsflchen
agris:CH2001000179 dct:creator agris-author:peterb
agris-author:luhui foaf:name Peter, B.
agris:CH2001000179 dct:subject agrovoc:c_4416
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The computer detects matching URIs...
Subject Predicate Object
agris:CN2009002389 dct:title

agris:CN2009002389 dct:creator agris-author:luhui

agris-author:luhui foaf:name Lu Hui
agris:CN2009002389 dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
agris:CH2001000179 dct:title Heuschrecken brauchen
kologische
Ausgleichsflchen
agris:CH2001000179 dct:creator agris-author:peterb
agris-author:luhui foaf:name Peter, B.
agris:CH2001000179 dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
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The computer detects matching URIs...
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Cn
dct:title

Lu Hui
agris-author:
luhui
dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
foaf:name
dct:creator
CP
dct:title Heuschrecken
Peter, B.
agris-author:
peterb
dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
foaf:name
dct:creator

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Cn
dct:title

Lu Hui
agris-author:
luhui
dct:subject
foaf:name
dct:creator
CP
dct:title Heuschrecken
Peter, B.
agris-author:
peterb
dct:subject
agrovoc:c_4416
foaf:name
dct:creator
Resources in different
languages, linked by
reference to a common
KOS Concept.
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CASTING A WIDER NET

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Orthoptera
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Orthoptera.rdf
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8172000/8172168.stm
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http://dbpedia.org/page/Orthoptera
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What else links to the DBPedia concept?
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AGRIS record
AGROVOC
concept
DBPedia
concept
VIVO Expert
BBC Web page
BBC News
Wikipedia
page
8 -pointing URIs
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AGRIS record
AGROVOC
AGRIS Authors
Dublin Core
FOAF
SKOS
Traditional paradigm: Map between structured Records
Schema A Schema B Schema C
same
as
mapped
to
Linked Data: Applications create good triples
Application A Application B Application C
u independently of applications
Application A Application B Application C
DC
RDA
SKOS
FOAF
LCSH
VIAF
FRBR

tom@tombaker.org