ragld - rapid assembly of geo-centred linked data applications

Dr John Goodwin

Principal Scientist

RAGLD

About RAGLD

• A collaborative project between Ordnance Survey, the University of Southampton and Seme4

• Part-funded by the Technology Strategy Board‘s “Harnessing Large and Diverse Sources of Data” programme

• 18 month long project. Started Oct 2011. Due to complete March 2013

• Building tools to enable developers to make greater use of linked data

“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”

http://apps.seme4.com/see-uk/

As more and more linked data and open data emerges, RAGLD aims to meet rising demand for a suite of application developers’ tools to make it easier to bring together, use and exploit this diverse data.

This project aims to provide the tools, components and services necessary to build linked data applications, helping to speed up and enhance the use of linked data and realise the potential in linked

data for data integration and discovery.

Tools and Services

• Relationship Management Services• Data Enhancement Services• Data Transformation Services• Spatial Query Services• Reconciliation Services• Visualisation Components• Linked Data Publication Framework• Workflow Management• Federation of Services

A Local Environment

What’s in a RAGLD

Airports Turtle

[]

a srv:Service , srv:GeospatialRelationshipService ;

srv:name "Airports" ;

srv:description "Indexed store of airport point geometries" ;

srv:endpoint "services/geo/airport/" ;

srv:data_store _:airport .

_:airport

srv:id "airport" ; # airport database table

srv:db_host "localhost" ;

srv:db_name "ragld_john" ;

srv:db_user "ragld" ;

srv:db_pass "ragld" ;

srv:db_type "pgsql" .

http://lv320.ordsvy.gov.uk/tony/services/geo/airport/features/

http://transport.data.gov.uk/id/stop-area/920GMAN2

http://demo.data.seme4.com/id/

250 B&B’s

http://demo.data.seme4.com/id/route

http://geospatial.data.seme4.com/services/geo/ingest/ingest/http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.data.seme4.com%2Fid%2Froute

URL - http://demo.data.seme4.com/id/route

URL encoded - http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.data.seme4.com%2Fid%2Froute

http://geospatial.data.seme4.com/services/geo/analysis/buffer/10000/http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.data.seme4.com%2Fid%2Froute

URL - http://demo.data.seme4.com/id/route

URL encoded - http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.data.seme4.com%2Fid%2Froute

http://geospatial.data.seme4.com/services/geo/bnb/within/http%3A%2F%2Fgeospatial.data.seme4.com%2Fservices%2Fgeo%2Fanalysis%2Fbuffer%2F10000%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Fdemo.data.seme4.com%252Fid%252Froute

60 B&B’s

http://geospatial.data.seme4.com/services/geo/ingest/ingest/http%3A%2F%2Fdev.ragld.com%2Fservices%2Fiterators%2Fgeneric%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Fgeospatial.data.seme4.com%252Fservices%252Fgeo%252Fbnb%252Fwithin%252Fhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fgeospatial.data.seme4.com%25252Fservices%25252Fgeo%25252Fanalysis%25252Fbuffer%25252F10000%25252Fhttp%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fdemo.data.seme4.com%2525252Fid%2525252Froute%2F%257Bnull%257D%2F

RAGLD provides access to tools and technologies that enable data consumers to easily select, filter, manipulate, visualise, transform and communicate data in ways that are suited to specific decision-making processes.

Contact for further information

John Goodwin

john.goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk