Linked Data & INSPIRE: Progress in broadening the data sharing agenda Alex Coley UK Location Information Interoperability Board Chair & Directives Reporting

Linked Data & INSPIRE:Progress in broadening the data sharing agenda

Alex ColeyUK Location Information Interoperability Board Chair &

Directives Reporting Service Manager (Environment Agency)

with thanks to: Tony Riggs (Environment Agency)

Keith Murray (UKLP) and

Stuart Williams (Epimorphics)

linkages between data objects in a common language

Many domains through linked data

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Legislation data

Environment dataTransport data

Community data

Location data

Health data Education data

data.gov.uk | inspire

other data

Greater than the sum of the parts

Context (through vocabularies)

the “basic” data +

domain neutral, web accessible, machine

readable format+

The URI framework

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The URI framework

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The URI framework

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DescriptioninspireId=nwrk:123456stationCode=“MAN”station=../id/station/MANgeometry=GM_Point(...)........

RailwayStationNode

inspireId=nwrk:456789stationCode=“MAN”station=../id/station/MANgeometry=GF_Boundary(....)........

RailwayStationAreadescribes

describes

describes

Web Documents/Information Resources

.../doc/...

Abstracted-World.../so/...

crsRef =“MAN”tiplocRef=“MNCRPIC”label=“Manchester Picadilly...””node=...so/tn/RailwayStationNode/nwkr/123456area = ..so/tn/RailwayStationArea/nwkr/456789

RailwayStation

RailwayStationNode

RailwayStationArea

RailwayLink

.../id/...

Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station

Real-World

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RailwayStationNode

Outcome focus

DatastoreLinkable data(all domains)

environment

health

legislation

location

statistics

transport

education

Metadata & RegistersAPI to find data objects

Intermediate servicesEnable Applications

Application ServicesDedicated functionality & “business” processes

End user toolsAll types & Many devices

App

Triple Store

WMS

WFS

Triple Generatoreg Google

Refine

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ap

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App

App

Location based User App

User Apps (incl location)

User App – no locationTriple

Generator Scriptingeg Pythoneg Excel>stylesheet

Registers

Reference Data

Ontology: predicates/vocabs

Ap

i(s)

api

ExampleBathing Water linked data pilot

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the current problem

what we do...

Press interest

start of season

20-22 samples in 22weeks

annual reportNovember

bath

ing se

aso

n

15th May

30th Sept

December

what informationis relevant to publicabout beaches

what we do

how linkable data helps

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Tenby Tourist Information Centre Unit 2 , The Gateway Complex Tenby. Wales , SA70 7LT Tel: 01834 842 402Fax: 01834 845 439Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

as built with INSPIRE

other linked data

data.gov.uk

location data

location.data.gov.uk

environment dataenvironment.data.gov.uk

definitions

environment.data.gov.uk

reference

reference.data.gov.uk

Reference Data:

Bathing Waters: http://environment.data.gov.uk/id/bathing-water/{eubwId}

Sample Point: http://location.data.gov.uk/so/ef/SamplePoint/bwmp.eaew/{bwmpId}

inspire theme

feature type

namespacelocalID

as built within INSPIRE

spatialobject

Observations: http://environment.data.gov.uk/data/bathing-water-quality/in-year/sample/date/{date}/time/{time}/point/{bwmpId}

data.gov.uk

location.defra.gov.uk

www.environment-agency.gov.uk

legislation.gov.uk

data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

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