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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an Introduction To RDF. In that article, we discussed expressing a RDF single triple (which defined the location of my blog) as a blob and line diagram. But what if... (read more)
prefix.cc is a very handy little service that I use a lot. If you work with RDF a bit, you get to know the commonly used prefixes for ontology terms, such as rdfs:label, foaf:Person, owl:sameAs... (read more)
What is RDF? Linked Data is based around describing real world things using RDF. A lot of articles about Linked Data assume you already know what RDF is all about: if you are coming to it for the... (read more)
It’s been a while coming, but (finally), I’d like to present this 3rd article in the series. Together, we’re building a Linked Data application to map the English Indices of... (read more)
This article the 2nd in a series, where we’re building a Linked Data application to map the English Indices of Multiple Deprivation Stats. The final source code for the app can be found on... (read more)
Earlier this year, we (Swirrl), launched the OpenDataCommunities site, on which we host a Linked Data version of the 2010 English Indices of Multiple Deprivation. Map Explorer Over the last week or... (read more)
Last weekend we (Ric and Bill from Swirrl) attended the Lovely Data hack-day in Manchester. For the event, we’d promised to make available a Linked Data version of the Transport for Greater... (read more)
To help SPARQL newbies get to grips with the language and to see what kind of things you can do with it, we’re planning to run regular worked examples of SPARQL queries. Aside: If you... (read more)
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Ric Roberts: CTO and founder of Swirrl. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, NoSQL and Linked Data expert. Founding member of OpenDataManchester..
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