1. One example
Spending Data in UK
From the Linking Open Data cloud
A Payment from Lichfield District
Council, one local authority in the UK.
Globally identified by a URI
http://spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/spend/8605670
Linked Data Introduction (Extras) Linked Spending Data –
1 How and Why Bother
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2. Two things to remember
RDF Triples
Resource
Description subject predicat object
Framework
Example from a text book
The sky has the color blue
Example from the Spending data example in UK
Payment number 8605670 Net Amount 120.00
Payment number 8605670 Type Expenditure Line
Payment number 8605670 Payer Lichfield District Council
Lichfield District Council Type Local Authority
Triples for the standards that provides the semantics
The property Net Amount comment “The net amount of the payment.
This is the effective cost to the
payer after any reclaimable tax
has been deducted.”
The class Expenditure Line subclass of Observation in a multi-dimensional
Linked Data Introduction (Extras)
data cube for statistics
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3. Two things to remember
Global Identifiers
Uniform
Resource
Identifier
URI
Examples of Identifiers for “things” in Spending data example
http://spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/spend/8605670
http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/41UD
Examples of Identifiers for “types of things” / “standards for things”
http://statistics.data.gov.uk/def/administrative-geography/LocalAuthority
http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/payment#ExpenditureLine
http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/payment#netAmount
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#Observation
Linked Data Introduction (Extras)
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4. One example – “under the hood”
Live view using the Web Data Inspector
2 of 10 RDF Triples
Linked Data Introduction (Extras)
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5. One example – with a top-down approach to
standardization of the semantics
The Payment Ontology
Live view using the Web Data Inspector
Linked Data Introduction (Extras)
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Kerstin Forsberg CDISC Interchange Europe 2011 eHR and the World Beyond
6. UK government: Top-down approach to
standardization for Spending Data
Statistical Data perspective
Linked Data Cube Vocabulary
Presentation:
Statistical Data in RDF
The RDF Data Cube
vocabulary
Payment Ontology
Guide to the
Payments Ontology
Linked Data Introduction (Extras)
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Kerstin Forsberg CDISC Interchange Europe 2011 eHR and the World Beyond
