Today I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation in the Semantic Web track at Online Information in London.  Sharing the stage with David Pullinger, Head of Digital Policy, COI,UK Government, John Sheridan, Head of e-Services and Strategy, Office of Public Sector Information and Eero Hyvonen, Professor, Semantic Media Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in a session that followed on from a keynote Talis CTO, Ian Davis, it was my challenge to ‘demonstrate’ Linked Data in action.

After a few opening scene setting slides I took my life in my hands, opened up a selection of web browsers to embark on a tour of live examples of Linked Data in action, many of which being underpinned by data in Talis Platform stores.  Fortunately my 3G connection held up for the duration, and I got to the end without any long waits watching spinning web browser icons.

For those that asked, here is a SlideShare version of my presentation, including screenshots of what I showed, and links to some of the sites I visited.

By rob

• Data.gov.uk
• Edubase
• Search Interface for Education RDF data in [Talis Platform] store.
• SPARQL Query Interface for Education RDF data in [Talis Platform] store. (Results of SPARQL query)
• Litchfield District Council ‘My Area’ page, demonstrating schools information pulled in vas SPARQL query from above store. (See Nodalities video with Stuart Harrison who developed this)
• KML File Generator for Schools data – courtesy of Stewart Harrison.
• John Goodwin’s Meshup of OS, DBpeadia, BBC, and geniality data.
• BBC Programmes Subject Relationships – courtesy Leigh Dodds, Talis.
• Crime statistics visualisation – courtesy Jeni Tennison
• Crime offences visualisation – courtesy Jeni Tennison

Update: The FanHubz application merging Twitter and BBC programmes data, shown in Ian Davis’ keynote earlier in the day, can be found here: fanhu.bz