Our group meets on most Mondays from 12:10 to 1:00 PM in the Training Room in the basement of the Eskind Biomedical Library (Room 010). Here is the schedule of our spring 2019 meetings:
| Date | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 14 | Introduction to Linked Data I: graphs, URIs, and RDF triples | Lesson webpage |
| Jan. 21 | (MLK Day - no meeting) | |
| Jan. 28 | Introduction to Linked Data II: Turtle, XML, and JSON serializations of RDF, conversions, RDF graphs, and loading data into a triplestore | Lesson webpage |
| Feb. 4 | Project day I: using Docker and setting up an instance of Wikibase on your computer | Install Docker / Install Blazegraph and Wikibase |
| Feb. 11 | Introduction to Linked Data III: SELECT SPARQL queries | SPARQL lesson |
| Feb. 18 | (cancelled) | |
| Feb. 25 | Project day II: The Wikibase/Wikidata graph model. Entering data into Wikibase/Wikidata using the GUI. Test using SELECT queries | Wikibase model / Docker Machine |
| Mar. 4 | (spring break - no meeting) | |
| Mar. 11 | (no meeting) | |
| Mar. 18 | Introduction to Linked Data IV: CONSTRUCT SPARQL queries. Construct queries to get RDF from Wikidata | CONSTRUCT lesson |
| Mar. 25 | Project day III: Tools for bulk-loading data into Wikibase (Quickstatements, Python/CSV, bots) | |
| Apr. 1 | Project day IV: configure and use a Wikibase bot | Bot building lesson |
| Apr. 8 | Discuss Wikidata/Wikibase collaboration | ARL note link / White paper link |
| Apr. 15 | Wrap up semester and discuss future meetings |
sometime we should check out Linked Data Fragments