Experimenting with Co-ops UK dataset 2015

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The Co-ops UK open dataset is being used to experiment with the creation of linked open data. A copy of the data is stored in this repository, together with some tools to convert it into Linked Open Data, and to deploy that data to a web server.

Creating the Linked Open Data

Clone the repository and change directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/p6data-coop/ise-linked-open-data.git
$ cd ise-linked-open-data/data/co-ops-uk/2015-06

This directory contains three files of interest:

• Makefile - issues commands to fulfil particular goals (e.g. make deploy).
• Cooperative_Economy_Open_Dataset_2015_06.csv - the Co-ops UK open dataset.
• generate-triples.rb - ruby script to convert the above CSV into RDF, Turtle and HTML.

The Makefile is configureable, through passing parameters to override make variables in the usual way.

To generate the RDF, Turtle and HTML files from the CSV dataset:

$ make generate-data

To deploy the data to the server (pay particular attention to the variables in the Makefile to configure the server and directory paths):

$ make deploy