Learn Linked Data

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 Manchester bus stops and schedules data, which had recently been released as open data. So, during the week leading up to the event, Bill blogged a Linked Data Diary documenting the steps involved to make this possible, with the hope that it would be a useful illustration of what’s involved.

Bill’s diary entries: day1, day2, day3, days4-6.

At the event itself, as well as lots of interesting discussions around open and linked data, we were pleased to work with Ben Gibbs who spent the day creating a very nice timetable app. Ben’s app gets its data via SPARQL queries against our Linked Manchester buses dataset.