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"data.open.ac.uk is the home of open linked data from The Open University. It is a platform currently developed as part of the LUCERO JISC Project to extract, interlink and expose data available in various institutional repositories of the University and make it available openly for reuse."

Start of a project at Bolton Uni to data warehouse with Linked Data components.

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.

Complicated stuff on linked data / semantic web stuff including Refib=ne, RDF, JSON and REST.

Post on data privacy including lots of links to supporting software.

A huge danger in linking your accounts together over multiple services - and in not backing up your data. It's the cloud - be afraid, be very afraid.

"ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways"

Diagram of data sources feeding into DBpedia. Goes with an article at http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/response-to-my-linked-data-challenge/