Data on the Web

Let's talk about data on the Web! All kinds of data, but all of it machine-readable and free of charge.

Schedule:

09:30 - Welcome by Prof Shirley Leitch, Dean CBE

09:40 - The World Wide Web Consortium, J. Alan Bird, MIT, CA, US

10:30 - The Australian Government Linked Data Working Group, Chris Beer, ABS and Dale Percival, BoM

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - Spatial Data on the Web, Dr Kerry Taylor, ABS

Our first speaker will be J. Alan Bird, Global Business Development Lead for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) based out of MIT in Boston, MA, who will talk about the evolution of the World Wide Web and the dramatic shift that we are seeing in the usage of the Web for sharing data, displaying and publishing content and connecting all the devices up to provide better information. The Standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are at the center of this evolution and your activities will be impacted by these powerful changes. Come hear about what the Web Community is doing in these exciting areas and how we at W3C are enabling these dynamic changes.

Chris Beer and Dale Percival will introduce the Australian Government Linked Data Working Group (AGLDWG) which was established in 2012 to foster collaboration across Australian federal government bodies on issues relating to Linked Data. The AGLDWG acts as a community of practice for Linked Data research and systems and seeks to provide technical governance and guidance to Australian Government agencies on publishing Australian Government public sector information using Linked Data as a delivery technology. Chris and Dale will also invite the audience to tell us how they are using Open Data, and in particular Linked Open Data.

Our final speaker for the day will be Dr Kerry Taylor from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Co-Chair of the W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group. She will be talking about the need to develop standards for addressing data that is spatial, temporal, and potentially remotely sensed and how the standards developed by the Spatial Data on the Web Working group, a collaboration between the W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium , will address the requirements posed, will address the requirements posed by such data. The standards developed in this working group should be useful to both publishers and consumers of open data for spatial data infrastructures, Web search, and Internet of Things applications.

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