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[edit] Linked Data Camp
...for an even better Web of Data.
[edit] Upcoming Linked Data Camps
- LinkedDataCampVienna2009 - please use #ldc09 as hash-tag
[edit] What's the Problem?
Continued growth of the Web of Data/Semantic Web is heavily dependent on four different aspects of the Linked Data ecosystem:
- the availability of vocabularies & ontologies,
- scalable and stable technologies,
- services which facilitate the use of linked data and also
- innovative application scenarios on top of the Semantic Web
All four aspects need different approaches to develop additional infrastructure for an even better Web of Data:
- While a number of key vocabularies are in widespread use, there are also many areas with little or no vocabulary coverage, hindering the ability to publish data in these domains.
- A lot of technologies in the area of the Semantic Web were developed as a prototype. Putting together the right pieces and streamlining technology development underpinned by a clear focus on demand oriented scenarios will accelerate the evolvement of a mature technology stack in a phase of commercialisation of the Semantic Web.
- The diffusion of the Linked Data meme also depends on easy-to-implement semantic web applications based on web services like "OpenCalais" or "sameAs". Setting up a landscape of web services around Linked Data is a crucial point for a widespread use of the Semantic Web in everyday web applications.
- The rather technology centric approach to the development of a "semantic web" has suffered until now from a lack of realistic end-user perspectives and application scenarios on top of profound domain knowledge. Opening up the debate around a Web of Data to other industries and knowledge domains could result in innovative applications.
[edit] What is the Linked Data Camp?
Heavily inspired by the idea of the VoCamp, the Linked Data Camp is a series of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time, discussing and working on the aforementioned aspects of an even better Web of Data, by designing and creating prototypes, vocabularies, mock-ups, or applications. People are asked to come together, to share their thoughts and to get hands on developing novel applications for the Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect result, a new technology, ready-to-use services, or a detailed concept for a new application, but on discovering and creating new building blocks and concepts that are good enough for other people to build upon.
