2. Who am I? @DFFlanders
David F. Flanders
Senior Business Analyst
ANDS (since Jan 2012)
Previously with the JISC,
Digital Infrastructure
Team, Responsible for
Identifiers, Geospatial &
Linkeddata Programmes
#jiscEXPO
5. ANDS Vocab (private
alpha)
● ANDS is tasked with
sharing research data
across the nation
(and globe). I can haz
tabular data? <--
we've got lots!
● Simple data: tabular
Example Tides 1683
Depth: feet, inches,
other?
6. What if...
Instead of using human terms (or
abbreviations), what if we just copy & pasted a
link to what we meant at the header of each
column?
http://dbpedia.org/page/Metre
Then machines
could read this
table as well, and
do what they do
best... compare!
7. Iterating towards a solution
Solution: Problems:
● Lookup API so it is ● Lots of Academic
easy to integrate vocabs,
URIs instead of <lessThan>,
human terms as the <greaterThan>
key:value pairs for doesn't cover it :(
data? ● Getting human
● API library to house agreement is the
on d/b so ANDS can tough part.
come along & query?