Australian Government Linked Data Working Group

AGLDWG meetings

The WG meets once a month on Thursdays, 3-4pm Canberra time.

AGLDWG plenary meeting
First Thursday of each month
Department of Finance & teleconference

Linked Data WG Presentations

Here are some presentations about Linked Data given by members of this group and other Linked Data experts

• 2024 Nov 7 Presentation: AGM Monthly Meetings Presentation
  • Projects Slides
    • Presenter: Alastair Paton
    • About: Ontology Mapping
• 2022 Aug 4 Event: AGM Project Presentations
  • Projects Slideshow
    • Presenter: Multiple WG members
    • About: 2022 Linked Data Projects by WG members
• 2022 Jun 2 Event: Monthly Meeting Presentation
  • ANSIS vocabs
    • Presenter: Simon Cox
    • About: Semantic Web use within Australia's National Soil Information System project
• 2019 Sep 11 & 12 Event: Next Big Tech Asia Conference Kuala Lumpur, 2019
  • League of Data
    • Presenter: Nicholas Car
    • About: Following-up on 2018's NextBigTech presentation about the use of Linked Data by Australian government
• 2018 Oct 2&3 Event: Next Big Tech Asia Conference Kuala Lumpur
  • How Big Data Can Elevate Better Public Service Delivery
    • Presenter: Nicholas Car
    • About: Big Data impacts on Public/Private collaboration, Analytics for public service delivery, Real-time data adoption
  • The Australian Case Study: Governance of Federated, Federal Data
    • Presenter: Nicholas Car
    • About: The Australian data landscape, Distributed data production, Interoperability, Data harmonisation & integrity, aims for industry
• 2018 July 20 New methods of governing Linked Data
  • Presenter: Nicholas Car
  • Event: Gov Open Data Meet-up, ABS videoconference
  • About: the AGLDWG's current work
• 2018 Jun 13 Event: ANZLIC Metadata Working Group, Canberra
  • Metadata and Linked Data: Where is it all going?
    • Presenter: Nicholas Car
    • About: how spatial catalogue managers in Australia can implement metadata elements within their current catalogue installation that allow the catalogues information to be interpreted as RDF/Linked Data
  • How can you contribute to the W3C and the AGLDWG?
    • Presenter: Armin Haller
    • About: the AGLDWG, LD in general, LD internationally and some spatial LD work like SSN ontology
• 2018 May 30 Persistent URIs for Australian Government
  • Presenter: Simon Cox
  • Event: C3DIS Conference, Melbourne
  • About: the AGLDWG's previous persistent URI system and the plans for a new one
• 2018 May 23 Whole-of-government data integration using Linked Data
  • Presenter: Nicholas Car
  • Event: Geoscience Information Consortium, Canberra
  • About: How the AGLDWG is helping to achieve national-scale, multi-agency data integration using Linked Data
• 2018 March 27 Australian Government Linked Data Working Group (AGLDWG)
  • Presenter: Armin Haller
  • Event: Webinar series on Linked Data programmes of national administrations, Scottish Government
  • About: Who the AGLDWG is and what it does
• 2017 Aug 15 Open Data - Link It!
  • Presenter: Armin Haller
  • Event: 2017 Australian Computer Society Canberra Branch Conference
  • About: fundamentals of Linked Data, schema.org, government LD use, the AGLDWG
• 2017 Aug 03 Member agency's LD status
  • Presenter: Multiple AGLDWG members
  • Event: AGLDWG AGM 2017
  • About: update on AGLDWG member agency's LD activities in the last year
• 2017 Jul 30 A current Linked (Open) Data System at Geoscience Australia
  • Presenter: Nicholas Car
  • Event: 2017 June Open Data Community Forum
  • About: a demo of a current LD system at Geoscience Australia
• 2017 Jul 20 Libraries & Linked Data - From a Linked Data point of view
  • Presenter: Nicholas Car
  • Event: 2017 Aust. Parliamentary Libraries Assoc. Conference
  • About: thoughts on libraries' role in LD and LD in general
• 2017 Apr 05 Australia's distributed national spatial dataset production systems and community
  • Presenter: Nicholas Car
  • Event: WWW2017 World Wide Web conference, W3C session
  • About: current state of LD adoption in the Australian spatial government sector
• 2017 Mar 25 Examining best practice methods for publishing structured data and linking government data
  • Presenter: Armin Haller
  • Event: 2017 Australian Government Data Summit
  • About: Why should we use LD to publish public sector information?
• 2017 Mar 22 The Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
  • Presenter: Nicholas Car
  • Event: 2017 March Open Data Community Forum
  • About: short intro to the AGLDWG

Other Linked Data-related Events

2020

Proposed:

• Mar: RDA's 15th Plenary meeting

2019

• July
  • Extended Semantic Web Conference 2-6 Jun 2019, Portoroz, Slovenia
    https://2019.eswc-conferences.org/
    An international Semantic Web conference
    Attending: Nicholas Car (presenting on the WG's involvement in Australian national techology projects) & Armin Haller (chairing sessions)

2018

• May
  • C3DIS 30 May 2018, Melbourne
    http://www.c3dis.com
    The Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science, building on CSIRO's Computational and Simulation Sciences and eResearch Conferences
    Attending: Simon Cox (presenting on the WG's PID system) and Jonathan Yu

2017

• December
  • Modelling and Simulation Conference (MODSIM)
    3-8 December, 2017, Hobart
    http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2017/
    Australia & NZ's largest modelling conference that occurs every 2 years. Linked Data appears here and there
    Attending: Nicholas Car (running a provenance session), Simon Cox, members from GA
• October
  • eResearch Australasia
    16–20 October 2017, Brisbane
    https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/
    Some sessions include vocabulary and Semantic Web work
    Attending: TBA
• August
  • Annual General Meeting
    3 August 2017, LF Crisp Building, ANU
    The regular Linked Data WG's AGM. Come to find out more about the group
    Attending: all members + public
• July
  • The CSIRO Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (CSS)
    17-20 July 2017, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
    https://wp.csiro.au/c3dis/
    "aims to build a national community of practice of scientists, researchers, and computing, data and information management specialists from publically funded Australian research organisations"
    Attending: Nicholas Car
  • Public Sector Innovation Network (PSIN) - ‘Making it Happen’ workshop
    25 July, 2017, Hobart
    https://innovation.govspace.gov.au/public-sector-innovation-network
    "to look at the emerging field of data/knowledge ontology, a key to transforming government efficiently"
    Attending: John Machin
  • Australasian Parliamentary Libraries Association (APLA) Conference for 2017
    20 July 2017, ACT Legislative Assembly
    The annual Australasian Parliamentary Libraries Association conference with a particular focus on Linked Data in 2017
    Attending: Nicholas Car
  • GovHack
    28-30 July 2017, multiple locations
    https://www.govhack.org/
    "an annual open data competition. Teams have 46 hours to create a project page, proof of concept and a video that tells the story of how government open data can be reused"
    Attending: Steven da Costa (likely)
• June
  • Government Open Data Forum
    30 June 2017, ABS office nationwide
    Nicholas Car presenting "A current Link (Open) Data system at Geoscience Australia" (slides)
    Attending: Nicholas Car
• May
  • Linking Data and Samples Symposium
    29 May - 2 June 2017, CSIRO Black Mountain, Canberra
    https://csiro-enviro-informatics.github.io/environmental-data-symposium-2017/
    "Linking Environmental Data and Samples will bring together leading researchers in earth and environmental informatics, to establish the current state of the art in environmental science data publication and its use of modern web principles."
    Attending: Simon Cox (event convener), Nicholas Car, Armin Haller
• April
  • 26th International World Wide Web Conference
    3-7 April, 2017, Perth
    http://www2017.com.au
    Many Semantic Web and Linked Data-related sessions and a W3C technical stream meeting
    Attending: Armin Haller, Nicholas Car