Linked Data in Government
A review of the state of linked open government data by Nigel Shadbolt and Kieron O’Hara.
Articles about Open Data
Linking open data to augmented intelligence and the economy
Nigel Shadbolt talking to Alex Howard of O’Reilly about Artificial Intelligence, the Open Data Institute and the Midata initiative.
Linked Open Government Data: Lessons from data.gov.uk
An article in IEEE Intelligent Systems on open government data, by Nigel Shadbolt, Kieron O’Hara, Tim Berners-Lee, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Wendy Hall and m.c. schraefel, discussing data migration, integration into the Web of Linked Data, provenance, extracting value from the data and lessons learned from the EnAKTing project.
Statistical analysis of the owl:sameAs network for aligning concepts in the linking open data cloud
Research paper by Gianluca Correndo, Antonio Penta, Nicholas Gibbins and Nigel Shadbolt describing a statistical and qualitative analysis of the network of instance level equivalences in the linking open data cloud.
Capturing Interactive Data Transformation Operations using Provenance Workflows
Research paper by Tope Omitola, Andre Freitas, Edward Curry, Sean O’Riain, Nicholas Gibbins and Nigel Shadbolt on a formal model of IDT (Interactive Data Transformation). IDT tools allow re-purposing of data by standardisation of heterogeneous data sets. They can also perform data quality assurance. The paper discusses the implementation and validation of the model on the IDT platform Google Refine.
‘There’s gold to be mined from all our data:’ Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee in The Times
An article by Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee published in The Times, discussing the advantages of open data and the wide array of possible applications.
Nigel Shadbolt interviewed on BBC News about launch of Midata
An interview with Professor Nigel Shadbolt, adviser to the government on the Open Data initiative, on the launch of the Midata scheme, which will allow consumers to have access to personal data held by a range of private sector organisations. 26 companies, including a number of household names such as Google, MasterCard and British Gas, have already signed up to the scheme.
Nigel Shadbolt quoted in the Guardian
Professor Shadbolt comments on Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude’s plans for changing the rules regarding Freedom of Information requests.
Open for Business
Nigel Shadbolt on open data in government and business, writing in Google’s Think Quarterly magazine