Rurik Greenall (@brinxmat) with a ‘Cheapskates guide to linked open data’. Using ‘Gunnerus Library’ special collections as an example. Wanted to remove the ‘fear experienced when faced by expert interfaces’ – want an interface that contextualises data.

Rurik says “if you’ve created a PDF, you’ve created RDF” – it’s baked in there by default. Rurik shows example from http://folk.ntnu.no/greenall/gunnerus/search/ – some is local data, but some dragged from other places across the web. Nice looking interface.

Rurik says Linked open data “Clawing back what remains of our professional dignity”

• You have to learn about RDF – but it really isn’t that difficult
• Tools of the trade – Google Spreadsheets; Google refine (esp. with DERI Galway RDF plugin)
• Talis offer free hosting if your data is openly licensed
• Tell all the people
• Develop your application – you will need a programmer 🙂 but you’ve already modelled your data…