[rdfweb-dev] RDF locations of Semantic web groups and researchers

[Libby Miller]

hi all,

You might have seen this on www-rdf-interest... this is a plea for data!

As part of the SWAD-Europe project [1] I have written a how-to document
extending this a bit further to show how you might represent the
locations of researchers and groups, their RSS channels, interests,
and projects.

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/intro.html

This document has been written in an attempt to persuade people and
groups to make data about themselves available in RDF, so that we can
use visualization tools to see what sort of work is going on where,
including outputs of projects, rss channels of events or news.

So - will you give it a go?

Here's what we've got so far, queried from my database

http://sw1.ilrt.org/discovery/2003/04/svggeo/query.jsp?query=+SELECT+%3Fairport%2C+%3Flat%2C+%3Flong%2C+%3Fname++%0D%0A+WHERE+%0D%0A+%28foaf%3Aname+%3Fgrp+%3Fname%29+%0D%0A+%28contact%3AnearestAirport+%3Fgrp+%3Fairport%29+%0D%0A+%28geo%3Alat+%3Fairport+%3Flat%29+%0D%0A+%28geo%3Along+%3Fairport+%3Flong%29+%0D%0A+USING+geo+for+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2003%2F01%2Fgeo%2Fwgs84_pos%23%0D%0A+foaf+for+http%3A%2F%2Fxmlns.com%2Ffoaf%2F0.1%2F+%0D%0A+contact+for+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F10%2Fswap%2Fpim%2Fcontact%23%0D%0A&dburi=null
http://sw1.ilrt.org/discovery/2003/04/svggeo/

I've done some sample files for ILRT (my organisation), and for some
researchers in HP Labs and W3C (some of the partners in the SWAD-Europe
project).

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/allSWGroups.rdf

When you have made an RDF document you could link it from the ESW wiki

http://esw.w3.org/topic/AnRdfHarvesterStartingPoint

the aim being that the information can then be harvested and aggregated,
queried and visualized.

The document is written in the spirit of discusson rather than as
claiming to be necessarily the right or only way to represent these
kinds of information. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the
topic - thanks to everyone who has helped me with it so far, especially
Dan Brickley and Jim Ley.

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200303/geo/intro.html#thanks

cheers

Libby

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/