Una aproximación basada en Linked Data para la detección de potenciales redes de colaboración científica a partir de la anotación semántica de producción científica: Piloto aplicado con producción científica de investigadores ecuatorianos

En este documento se propone un marco de trabajo basado en tecnologías de la Web Semántica para detectar potenciales redes de colaboración, mediante el enriquecimiento semántico de artículos científicos producidos por investigadores que publican con afiliaciones ecuatorianas. El marco de trabajo se describe a través de un ciclo de publicación de datos enlazados. Como alcance se consideraron publicaciones que tienen al menos un autor con afiliación ecuatoriana. Las redes de colaboración detectadas son un insumo importante para fortalecer los esfuerzos del gobierno ecuatoriano y las autoridades universitarias del país, priorizar los esfuerzos y recursos invertidos en investigación y determinar la pertinencia o coherencia de los programas de investigación.

kpath: An example of metabolic pathway data integration using Linked Data

The main databases related to metabolic pathways, such as Kegg, Brenda, Reactome and Biocyc, provide partially interlinked data on metabolic pathways. This limitation only allows independent searches to retrieve cross-database information on metabolism and restricts the use of more complex searches to discover new knowledge or relationships.

Linked Data in the Digital Humanities: Examples, Projects, and Tools

Harnessing the potential of semantic web technologies to support and diversify scholarship is gaining popularity in the digital humanities. This talk describes a number of projects utilising Linked Data ranging from musicology and library metadata, to the representation of the narrative structure, philological, bibliographical, and museological data of ancient Mesopotamian literary compositions.

Dades obertes enllaçades (Linked Open Data) en el món de l'educació : Una visió de l'estat de l'art d'aquesta tecnologia aplicada a l'ensenyament i l'aprenentatge

En el present treball hem tractat d'aportar una visió actual del món de les dades obertes enllaçades en l'àmbit de l'educació. Hem revisat tant les aplicacions que van dirigides a implementar aquestes tecnologies en els repositoris de dades existents (pàgines web, repositoris d'objectes educacionals, repositoris de cursos i programes educatius) com a ser suport de nous paradigmes dins del món de l'educació.

From Local Practice to Linked Open Data: Rethinking Metadata in Hydra

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Analisi sulla crescita e sulle funzioni dei Linked Open Data - LODStories

L'Open Data, letteralmente “dati aperti”, è la corrente di pensiero (e il relativo “movimento”) che cerca di rispondere all'esigenza di poter disporre di dati legalmente “aperti”, ovvero liberamente re-usabili da parte del fruitore, per qualsiasi scopo. L’obiettivo dell’Open Data può essere raggiunto per legge, come negli USA dove l’informazione generata dal settore pubblico federale è in pubblico dominio, oppure per scelta dei detentori dei diritti, tramite opportune licenze. Per motivare la necessità di avere dei dati in formato aperto, possiamo usare una comparazione del tipo: l'Open Data sta al Linked Data, come la rete Internet sta al Web. L'Open Data, quindi, è l’infrastruttura (o la “piattaforma”) di cui il Linked Data ha bisogno per poter creare la rete di inferenze tra i vari dati sparsi nel Web. Il Linked Data, in altre parole, è una tecnologia ormai abbastanza matura e con grandi potenzialità, ma ha bisogno di grandi masse di dati tra loro collegati, ossia “linkati”, per diventare concretamente utile. Questo, in parte, è già stato ottenuto ed è in corso di miglioramento, grazie a progetti come DBpedia o FreeBase. In parallelo ai contributi delle community online, un altro tassello importante – una sorta di “bulk upload” molto prezioso – potrebbe essere dato dalla disponibilità di grosse masse di dati pubblici, idealmente anche già linkati dalle istituzioni stesse o comunque messi a disposizione in modo strutturato – che aiutino a raggiungere una “massa” di Linked Data. A partire dal substrato, rappresentato dalla disponibilità di fatto dei dati e dalla loro piena riutilizzabilità (in modo legale), il Linked Data può offrire una potente rappresentazione degli stessi, in termini di relazioni (collegamenti): in questo senso, Linked Data ed Open Data convergono e raggiungono la loro piena realizzazione nell’approccio Linked Open Data. L’obiettivo di questa tesi è quello di approfondire ed esporre le basi sul funzionamento dei Linked Open Data e gli ambiti in cui vengono utilizzati.

Publishing Orthology and Diseases Information in the Linked Open Data Cloud

The Linked Data initiative offers a straight method to publish structured data in the World Wide Web and link it to other data, resulting in a world wide network of semantically codified data known as the Linked Open Data cloud. The size of the Linked Open Data cloud, i.e. the amount of data published using Linked Data principles, is growing exponentially, including life sciences data. However, key information for biological research is still missing in the Linked Open Data cloud. For example, the relation between orthologs genes and genetic diseases is absent, even though such information can be used for hypothesis generation regarding human diseases. The OGOLOD system, an extension of the OGO Knowledge Base, publishes orthologs/diseases information using Linked Data. This gives the scientists the ability to query the structured information in connection with other Linked Data and to discover new information related to orthologs and human diseases in the cloud.

Estudio de las posibilidades de los datos abiertos enlazados (Linked Open Data) para la realización de mashups de ámbito geográfico.

La web ha sufrido una drástica transformación en los últimos años, debido principalmente a su popularización y a la enorme cantidad de información que alberga. Debido a estos factores se ha dado el salto de la denominada Web de Documentos, a la Web Semántica, donde toda la información está relacionada con otra. Las principales ventajas de la información enlazada estriban en la facilidad de reutilización, accesibilidad y disponibilidad para ser encontrada por el usuario. En este trabajo se pretende poner de manifiesto la utilidad de los datos enlazados aplicados al ámbito geográfico y mostrar como pueden ser empleados hoy en día. Para ello se han explotado datos enlazados de carácter espacial provenientes de diferentes fuentes, a través de servidores externos o endpoints SPARQL. Además de eso se ha trabajado con un servidor privado capaz de proporcionar información enlazada almacenada en un equipo personal. La explotación de información enlazada se ha implementado en una aplicación web en lenguaje JavaScript, tratando de abstraer totalmente al usuario del tratamiento de los datos a nivel interno de la aplicación. Esta aplicación cuenta además con algunos módulos y opciones capaces de interactuar con las consultas realizadas a los servidores, consiguiendo un entorno más intuitivo y agradable para el usuario. ABSTRACT: In recent years the web has suffered a drastic transformation because of the popularization and the huge amount of stored information. Due to these factors it has gone from Documents web to Semantic web, where the data are linked. The main advantages of Linked Data lie in the ease of his reuse, accessibility and availability to be located by users. The aim of this research is to highlight the usefulness of the geographic linked data and show how can be used at present time. To get this, the spatial linked data coming from several sources have been managed through external servers or also called endpoints. Besides, it has been worked with a private server able to provide linked data stored in a personal computer. The use of linked data has been implemented in a JavaScript web application, trying completely to abstract the internally data treatment of the application to make the user ignore it. This application has some modules and options that are able to interact with the queries made to the servers, getting a more intuitive and kind environment for users.

3LD: towards high quality, industry-ready linguistic Linked Licensed Data

The application of Linked Data technology to the publication of linguistic data promises to facilitate interoperability of these data and has lead to the emergence of the so called Linguistic Linked Data Cloud (LLD) in which linguistic data is published following the Linked Data principles. Three essential issues need to be addressed for such data to be easily exploitable by language technologies: i) appropriate machine-readable licensing information is needed for each dataset, ii) minimum quality standards for Linguistic Linked Data need to be defined, and iii) appropriate vocabularies for publishing Linguistic Linked Data resources are needed. We propose the notion of Licensed Linguistic Linked Data (3LD) in which different licensing models might co-exist, from totally open to more restrictive licenses through to completely closed datasets.

Assessing Interethnic Admixture Using an X-Linked Insertion-Deletion Multiplex

In this study, a PCR multiplex was optimized, allowing the simultaneous analysis of 13 X-chromosome Insertion/deletion polymorphisms (INDELs). Genetic variation observed in Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans reveals high inter-population variability. The estimated proportions of X-chromosomes in an admixed population from the Brazilian Amazon region show a predominant Amerindian contribution (congruent to 41%), followed by European (congruent to 32%) and African (congruent to 27%) contributions. The proportion of Amerindian contribution based on X-linked data is similar to the expected value based on mtDNA and Y-chromosome information. The accuracy for assessing interethnic admixture, and the high differentiation between African, European, and Native American populations, demonstrates the suitability of this INDEL set to measure ancestry proportions in three-hybrid populations, as it is the case of Latin American populations. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 21:707-709, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Health services research using linked records: who consents and what is the gain?

Objective: To assess consent to record linkage, describe the characteristics of consenters and compare self-report versus Medicare records of general practitioner use. Method. Almost 40,000 women in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health were sent a request by mail for permission to link their Medicare records and survey data. Results: 19,700 women consented: 37% of young (18-23 years), 59% of mid-age (4550 years) and 53% of older women (70-75 years). Consenters tended to have higher levels of education and, among the older cohort, were in better health than nonconsenters. Women tended to under-report the number of visits to general practitioners. Conclusions: Record linkage of survey and Medicare data on a large scale is feasible. The linked data provide information on health and socio-economic status which are valuable for understanding health service utilisation. Implications: Linked records provide a powerful tool for health care research, particularly in longitudinal studies.

The Changing Nature of Library Networks - Open Data or One Big Silo?

Anders Söderbäckin esitys Kirjastoverkkopäivillä 26.10.2011 Helsingissä.

E-thesis repository – processes and data

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Getting Started With Open Data

This lecture introduces an array of data sources that can be used to create new applications and visualisations, many examples of which are given. Additionally, there are a number of slides on open data standards, freedom of information requests and how to affect the future of open data.

Getting Started with Open Data II

Overview of Linked Data in presentation to Royal Academy of Engineering