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OxLOD
Introduction
Over the past 50 years digital technologies have changed our world while our methods of capturing and storing data have remained largely unchanged.
The number of data silos has grown exponentially. Like the stars, they are becoming infinite and inaccessible.
Releasing data from legacy silos will avoid losing centuries of expert knowledge through obsolescent systems.
New digital technologies enable past and present knowledge to be linked, shared, endlessly enhanced and repurposed for future generations.
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While LOD technologies enrich knowledge in previously unimaginable ways they can also make inaccessible expert knowledge accessible to non-experts through automated links to familiar open online resources such as Wikipedia.
LOD gives societal relevance and global impact to authoritative academic research.
OxLOD is an altruistic not-for-profit Company Limited by Guarantee from Oxford University Innovation with a Board of internationally-known professors in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
In collaboration with renowned research institutions around the world OxLOD will develop Linked Open Data Hubs to transfer knowledge and build LOD capacity.
Today Linked Open Data content is predominantly American and European.
OxLOD will initially work with data from Asia, before returning to its established partnerships in the West.
China has the world’s oldest and best documented culture.
The first LOD Hub in Shanghai is already making Heritage data interoperable in ways that will enable models to be developed for other sectors.
Linked Open Data technologies use the free to download protocols and standards published by the World Wide Web Consortium. 
OxLOD advocates the use of Open Source Software, W3C protocols, and international standards for developed and developing countries in the spirit of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goal 17 – Partnerships. 
OxLOD’s collaborating institutions have the expertise to implement these technologies swiftly.
OxLOD Vision
A world of knowledge endlessly enriched and repurposed through ongoing research in Linked Open Data technologies in Oxford and in OxLOD Hubs.
Despite phenomenal advances in digital technologies over the past fifty years and exponential growth most data remain siloed in obsolescent systems. OxLOD will change mind sets, transfer knowledge, and build capacity.
Collaborating institutions, with structured deep research data, will challenge existing digital technologies to become faster, more accurate, and more accessible to all. They will also create new human and digital networks across the Arts and Sciences.
LOD Hubs will show policy makers, data providers, and technical support teams the importance of implementing International Standards for data handling.
OxLOD Mission
OxLOD advocates, educates, and facilitates the adoption of Open Source Software, W3C protocols, and international standards.
OxLOD’s primary income stream is through education – consultancy in the commercial world. Additional income will flow from development of new tools to structure, enrich, and disseminate data.
OxLOD will promote academic research into Linked Open Data technologies in Engineering and Computer Sciences, awareness of the social, political, and economic benefits of opening, linking, and sharing data, and the inevitable loss of knowledge through obsolescent systems.
OxLOD will create a charitable Foundation to embed and disseminate results of its academic research for future generations.
OxLOD Structure
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
OxLOD Research
OxLOD’s commitment to research is exemplified by its Board Members – Professors in Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Oxford.
Since LOD research and development has tended to be sector-specific OxLOD will apply its extensive experience with Heritage to development of replicable models for other sectors.
Research will be carried out in Oxford and Suzhou.
Results of OxLOD research will be delivered globally through a virtual network of OxLOD Hubs.
OxLOD Hubs
A federated global network
How will OxLOD develop Hubs?
• Share its well-established Linked Open Data methodologies.
• Consult with each institution to select sample data for assessment.
• Find the best approach for implementing the LOD enabling layer that sits on top of the institution’s existing digital infrastructures and does not affect original data.
• The institution retains and maintains data.
• The institution decides the data it wishes to open, link, and share.
• The Hub institutions establish guidelines for their regional rollouts.
Why pilot an LOD exchange with China?
- China is a global economy with dynamic technology and the world’s oldest and best documented culture.
- In 2017 OSCAR – the University of Oxford’s Centre for Advanced Research -opened in Suzhou.
- In 2018 a successful OXLOD pilot highlighted Chinese cultural objects and texts in the University of Oxford’s collections.
- In October 2019 OxLOD’s Founder established a Linked Open Data research group in Shanghai.
- During 2020 she established OxLOD.
- During 2021 the Shanghai research group began to work with other Chinese datasets.
- In 2022 OxLOD’s Founder was invited to become a Visiting Professor in OSCAR.
Proposed U.K. and China LOD pilot
Suzhou Skyline
OSCAR
OxLOD visit to OSCAR
A version of Microsoft Azure has been approved by the Chinese Government. This internationally known Cloud-based system is used by the University of Oxford.
Microsoft Azure is suitable for hosting a Linked Open Data pilot between China and the UK through OSCAR the University’s research centre in Suzhou.
OxLOD Hub institutions in Shanghai have the expertise in content, technology, and policy for a successful pilot that inspires others to adopt Linked Open Data technologies.
Web of Data
The original Web from 1990
The traditional Web
A Web of documents
data
The traditional Web
A Web of documents
data
The Semantic Web
A Web of human and machine-readable linked data
Web of Documents
The Web of Data
Multiple data silos are
funnelled into one large silo.
Data are not machine-readable. Data can be lost.
LOD data can be read by machines,
repurposed and enhanced endlessly.
Data can be Open, Linked, or Linked and Open.
RDF – Resource Description Framework – is a W3C standard to exchange data.
Triplestore is an RDF database.
OxLOD uses the 5 star approach advocated by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
OxLOD User Experience
Simulated LOD searches from the heritage sector are presented here in a video:
OxLOD’s altruistic mission needs philanthropic support
- to scale up a successful prototype, enhance it with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Image Recognition, and to roll out Hubs OxLOD needs philanthropic benefactions
- to achieve sustainability within five years
- A five-year plan for assessing an initiative’s potential is a well established model in the University of Oxford.
- An altruistic Business Plan has been developed for OxLOD
Benefits of philanthropy
OxLOD offers a unique opportunity to
• Have global impact on society, technology, international partnerships
• Embed LOD academic research for future generations
OxLOD offers philanthropists with special interest in China opportunities to
• Demonstrate how new digital technologies can virtually link information about Chinese culture siloed in
different geographical locations
• Make knowledge of China’s rich heritage more accessible to the world
OxLOD
Linking, sharing, endlessly enriching and repurposing past and present knowledge for future generations
OxLOD Structure
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
OxLOD Structure
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
OxLOD Structure
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.
Research will be carried out in OxLOD and in the University’s Departments of Engineering Science and Computer Science.
-Linked Open Data technologies
-RDF and Ontologies
-Machine Learning and AI
-Image Recognition
-User Requirements
-Infrastructure
Mission Group
Managed by COO and Founder
Research results will initially be delivered through the development of the OxLOD Hubs until the OxLOD Foundation is established.
The Foundation will then become responsible for co-ordinating the Hubs and liaising with governments philanthropists and research institutions.
International Advisory Group
Managed by Founder
Over decades, OxLOD’s Founder has led major international technology projects.
Colleagues from past projects will be among the first to be invited to join the Advisory Group.
The Group will advise on policies for applying Linked Open Data Technologies.