The W3C Data Activity

An overview, July 2015

Where it all began

Where We Are Today

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The Web of Data

Linked Data uses the concepts and technologies of the Web to describe the world

http://philarcher.org/diary/2014/canyouexplainlinkeddata/

An Incomplete List of Key Standards

• RDF, incl JSON-LD
• Data Cube (SDMX in RDF)
  • 270a Linked Dataspaces
• PROV-O - the Provenance Ontology
• ORG The Organisation Ontology
• DCAT - the Data Catalogue Vocabulary
  • DCAT-AP
• schema.org Community Group

The Data Activity

• CSV on the Web WG
  • Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web
  • Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data
• Data on the Web Best Practices
  • Best Practices
  • Dataset Usage Vocabulary
  • Data Quality Vocabulary
• Spatial Data on the Web WG (collaboration with OGC)
  • Use Cases & Requirements
• RDF Data Shapes
  • Use Cases & Requirements
  • Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL)
• Linked Data Platform WG
  • Linked Data Platform 1.0
  • LDP Next ideas

Nearby

• Web of Things
• Geofencing API
• Automotive
• …

What's Next?

Looking at licensing and rights statements coming from the work on ODRL

Making data more accessible in the way developers want it. JSON-LD is an important start of course. Things like Linked Data Fragments, Hydra and Facebook's GraphQL are all highly relevant.

Helping industries make incremental improvements from where they are towards smarter use of HTML5 and data on the Web.

Areas of interest include:

• scientific research data;
• product data, manufacturing supply chains etc.
• government data.

Basic Steps

Use persistent URIs as identifiers.

Share data intelligently.

Be nice to developers.