About
Here you can learn more about LATC partners, the way we have structured our work, our Advisory Committee and further details about LATC.
LATC, Linked Open Data Around-The-Clock is a Specific Support Action in the context of the FP7 ICT Programme. Our mission is to support people and organisations to better publish and consume Linked Open Data.
Advisory Committee (AC)
LATC has an Advisory Committee (AC), consisting of 58 institutions, projects and individuals around the world (74% from Europe and 25% from the US). Membership in the Advisory Committee is upon invitation.
Consortium
The LATC consortium members are:
- Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), The Netherlands
- Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany
- Institute for Applied Informatics e.V. (InfAI), Germany
- Talis Information Ltd (TALIS), United Kingdom
Liason
We closely work together with other projects in the Linked Data area in order to ensure a sustainable up-take of the outcomes. The liaison include, but are not limited to:
- European Environment Agency
- FP7 project BlogForever
- FP7 project LOD2 (Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data)
- FP7 project PlanetData
- FP7 project SEALS (Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale)
- FP7 project SpitFIRE (Semantic-Service Provisioning for the Internet of Things using Future Internet Research by Experimentation)
- French DataLift project
- Semic.EU
Objectives
We want to ...
... increase the number, the quality and the accuracy of data links between LOD datasets. LATC contributes to the evolution of the World Wide Web into a global data space that can be exploited by applications similar to a local database today. By increasing the number and quality of data links, LATC makes it easier for European Commission-funded projects to use the Linked Data Web for research purposes.
... support institutions as well as individuals with Linked Data publication and consumption. Many of the practical problems that a European Commission-funded project may discover when interaction with the Web of Data are solved on the conceptual level and the solutions have been implemented into freely available data publication and consumption tools. What is still missing is the dissemination of knowledge about how to use these tools to interact with the Web of Linked Data. We aim at providing this knowledge.
... create an in-depth test-bed for data intensive applications by publishing datasets produced by the European Commission, the European Parliament, and other European institutions as Linked Data on the Web and by interlinking them with other governmental data, such as found in the UK and elsewhere.
Work packages (WP)
Here you find an overview of how we have structured our work in LATC. The support provided in LATC is organised in so called work packages (WP).
WP1 24/7 Infrastructure Deployment
- Crawler and Indexer
- Data Source Inventory
- Linking Engine
- Quality Assurance Module & Workbench
- Models for Distributed Computation
- Platform Instrumentation & Analytics
WP2 Test-bed for Data Intensive Applications
- Business-related Datasets
- Legal Datasets
- European Institutions Datasets
WP3 Data Publication & Consumption Tools Library
- Initial Set of P&C Tools Library
- Evaluation
- Extended Set of P&C Tools Library
WP4 Dissemination and Community Relation
- Community Support & Interaction
- Sustainability and Exploitation
WP5 Management
- Project Administration
- Reporting and Project Quality Assurance