Linked Data & Solid

The course is intended for anyone who has a good familiarity with computer science and who wants to learn more about Linked Data and Solid that they can directly apply in practice. Participants have completed a higher education in computer science or have acquired equivalent experience.

Participants have programming experience with JavaScript/Typescript or a related programming language.

This course will dive into creating interoperability across multiple servers and organizations, on multiple levels. We will learn how to carefully reuse domain models where possible, and how to define your own terms where necessary, according to the latest state of the art in Linked Data. Solid applies Linked Data on personal data management: instead of having to store user data on your own servers, you can rely on a storage provider that speaks the Solid specification. Challenges that can be solved with Linked Data arise from the moment multiple apps read and write from the same storage. Techniques will be discussed to provide cross-app interoperability across open, shared, as well as personal knowledge graphs.

This course teaches you:

A basic understanding of Linked Data
A basic understanding of Solid
A basic understanding of semantic reasoning and streaming
How to publish Linked Data
How to set up the Community Solid Server
How to create queries over Linked Data
How to design and publish Linked Data vocabularies
How to generate Linked Data from non-Linked Data using RML.io
How to create interoperable Linked Data in Flanders and Europe
How to create a Linked Data architecture using Linked Data Fragments and Linked Data Event Streams
How to validate Linked Data using SHACL and ShEx