Web of data
Linked data via SQL and RDF
Inference through RIF and OWL
Vocabularies with OWL and SKOS
Query via SPARQL
Vertical applications
This week you’ll hear about excellent aspects of all of these, from technology advances to prototypes in specific sectors to sophisticated applications that ease the burden of detailed transactions that lead to greater understanding.
Today, I want to focus on the ways in which the work you each do can and do affect the lives of citizens across the planet. From technologists to farmers, from politicians to start up business owners, people are capitalizing on the wave of the semantic web.
Nampiira and her husband live in Lugazi district, near Kampala, Uganda. They own a small farm. Like you and I, they have hopes and dreams for themselves and their family. They want a stable income, a safe home, and a good education and future for their children.
Each day they make decisions that will affect their future: what and when to plant, how to mitigate risk, and how to spend their money.
They are often subject to the whims of weather.
They want to build a well rather than gathering water at the river.
Satellite imagery of storms
APIs to data from space missions that show weather, land use, moisture levels in soil, and water on the surface and under the ground.
One of the most important things is getting water at the farm
Some of the decisions happen in Nampiira’s community without her knowledge. The crops she plants each year are partly determined by seed crop available and affordable. These can be identified by local businesses and seed companies through data gathered by crop viability, weather patterns, predicted blight, etc.
Crowdsourcing of banana blight
Access to crop prices (mFarm)
Validate progress of road construction
Mobile money for women’s saving group
Send my child to school
My daughter goes to college in Makerere and starts a new business based on open data for health care for maternal health
Data integration from multiple sources
Mapping seamlessly with geospatial data from many places
Analytics
Visualization
Mobile push and pull as we migrate from SMS to smart phones in Africa
Nampiira doesn’t have to change her culture, values, or dreams. What changes is that she is now confident in the decisions she makes, she is less worried about the future, and better able to handle the things that come up.
Linked data truly can bring about change for all people.
Africa Open Data Meet Up
Africa Open Data Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 2-6, 2015
Code for Africa, School of Data, Ebola Data Jam, Open Data for Development, Web Foundation, +
Provides developers tools and raw data formats to develop new capabilities
Partnership with
W3C: eGov Interest Group + activities, standards, and recommendations
RPI for research in semantic web and open linked data
Data hosted in the cloud
Open source platform
Builds on ontologies developed in specific areas
Ontologies and schema adoption and augmentation with
Schema.org, IEEE, ISO, AGU, OASIS, and others
Crowdsourced folksonomies
RPI and Professor Jim Hendler
Lead for semantic web for Data.gov
W3C leadership (w3c.org)
Government Linked Data Working Group
eGovernment Interest Group (join for free!)
Government of India
Shared leadership in open source platforms
CKAN
Co-developing components of the Open Government Platform
Open Knowledge Foundation
Worked to roll out Red Cross hurricane app the night of the storm
284 deaths, but could have been so much more
First responder needs by parcel
Evacuation risk and routes
Most diverse city on the planet
9 million people
147 languages spoken
Web of data
Linked data via SQL and RDF
Inference through RIF and OWL
Vocabularies with OWL and SKOS
Query via SPARQL
Vertical applications
This week you’ll hear about excellent aspects of all of these, from technology advances to prototypes in specific sectors to sophisticated applications that ease the burden of detailed transactions that lead to greater understanding.
Today, I want to focus on the ways in which the work you each do can and do affect the lives of citizens across the planet. From technologists to farmers, from politicians to start up business owners, people are capitalizing on the wave of the semantic web.