The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has reportedly become the UK's first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The ECS is stated to be at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt.
Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS has released all its own data for public reuse. This includes data about research papers in the EPrints archive, people in the School, research groups, teaching modules, seminars and events, buildings and rooms.
All public (RDF) data from rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk and eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk is now available and can be reused for any legal purpose, including derivative works and commercial use. The School has opted for a creative commons public domain (CC0) licence to allow the data to be reused.
All the ECS information released is already available as HTML on the School's websites. Contact details of people are only included if they have previously opted into the University's public directory.
Over the summer the School plans to make the ECS SPARQL endpoint available to the public as part of its supported website features such as RSS or iCalendar files. In the near future SPARQL will be used to build parts of the School's own websites.
ECS has provided RDF data for around five years.
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