The Linked Data.gov Experiment

As we usher in this new era of open data and government transparency by making raw data available to the public in platform independent formats on Data.gov, we could be overlooking one of the simplest and most sincere opportunities to show what the open data movement is about: Linked Data. Linked data is the key to connecting government data sets to other government data and external data sources on the web.

I am hoping to create interest for a community-led project to prototype an RDF enabled dataset for Data.gov and link it to other related data sources in the Linked Data Cloud.

Next Big (Invasion of Privacy) Thing on the Net

I woke up feeling a little prophet-ish this morning. If I were a betting man, I'd go that route, but instead I'll just blog about it. I know what the next big service thing from Google should will be (keep reading).

More semantic web applications

More than just a passing fad, the 'semantic web' is referenced more and more. Today I stumbled across a site that employs some interesting semantic techniques to provide free access to global health information in a widely recognized visual format: Google maps!