Australian Government Linked Data Working Group

AGLDWG Monthly Meetings

The WG meets online on the first Thursday of every month, 4-5pm Canberra time, other than in January.

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Speaker Schedule

The WG invites experts on Linked Data and related fields to present during Monthly Meetings and in other special sessions.

Our Speaker Schedule for 2026 is online.

Highlights for 2026 are:

a special session on Verifiable Credentials in March
a series of presentations on SOLID, Feb - May
a special session on SHACL
- by many of the W3C SHACL editors
international government Linked Data presenters, Apr - Oct

Previous Linked Data WG Presentations

Here are some presentations about Linked Data given by members of this group and other Linked Data experts

2025 December 4 Presentation: AGM Monthly Meetings Presentation
- Slides
  - Presenter: Alastair Paton
  - About: A Linked Data View of Australia
2025 November 26 Presentation: Data Management Association of Australia AGM
- Slides
  - Presenter: Nicholas Car
  - About: Semantic Web Data Integration for Australia
2025 April 10 Presentation: AGM Monthly Meetings Presentation
- Slides
  - Presenter: Nicholas Car
  - About: The proposed new PID Catalogue system
2024 Nov 7 Presentation: AGM Monthly Meetings Presentation
- Projects Slides
  - Presenter: Alastair Paton
  - About: Ontology Mapping
2022 Aug 4 Event: AGM Project Presentations
- Projects Slideshow
  - Presenter: Multiple WG members
  - About: 2022 Linked Data Projects by WG members
2022 Jun 2 Event: Monthly Meeting Presentation
- ANSIS vocabs
  - Presenter: Simon Cox
  - About: Semantic Web use within Australia’s National Soil Information System project
2019 Sep 11 & 12 Event: Next Big Tech Asia Conference Kuala Lumpur, 2019
- League of Data
  - Presenter: Nicholas Car
  - About: Following-up on 2018’s NextBigTech presentation about the use of Linked Data by Australian government
2018 Oct 2&3 Event: Next Big Tech Asia Conference Kuala Lumpur
- How Big Data Can Elevate Better Public Service Delivery
  - Presenter: Nicholas Car
  - About: Big Data impacts on Public/Private collaboration, Analytics for public service delivery, Real-time data adoption
- The Australian Case Study: Governance of Federated, Federal Data
  - Presenter: Nicholas Car
  - About: The Australian data landscape, Distributed data production, Interoperability, Data harmonisation & integrity, aims for industry
2018 July 20 New methods of governing Linked Data
- Presenter: Nicholas Car
- Event: Gov Open Data Meet-up, ABS videoconference
- About: the AGLDWG’s current work
2018 Jun 13 Event: ANZLIC Metadata Working Group, Canberra
- Metadata and Linked Data: Where is it all going?
  - Presenter: Nicholas Car
  - About: how spatial catalogue managers in Australia can implement metadata elements within their current catalogue installation that allow the catalogues information to be interpreted as RDF/Linked Data
- How can you contribute to the W3C and the AGLDWG?
  - Presenter: Armin Haller
  - About: the AGLDWG, LD in general, LD internationally and some spatial LD work like SSN ontology
2018 May 30 Persistent URIs for Australian Government
- Presenter: Simon Cox
- Event: C3DIS Conference, Melbourne
- About: the AGLDWG’s previous persistent URI system and the plans for a new one
2018 May 23 Whole-of-government data integration using Linked Data
- Presenter: Nicholas Car
- Event: Geoscience Information Consortium, Canberra
- About: How the AGLDWG is helping to achieve national-scale, multi-agency data integration using Linked Data
2018 March 27 Australian Government Linked Data Working Group (AGLDWG)
- Presenter: Armin Haller
- Event: Webinar series on Linked Data programmes of national administrations, Scottish Government
- About: Who the AGLDWG is and what it does
2017 Aug 15 Open Data - Link It!
- Presenter: Armin Haller
- Event: 2017 Australian Computer Society Canberra Branch Conference
- About: fundamentals of Linked Data, schema.org, government LD use, the AGLDWG
2017 Aug 03 Member agency’s LD status
- Presenter: Multiple AGLDWG members
- Event: AGLDWG AGM 2017
- About: update on AGLDWG member agency’s LD activities in the last year
2017 Jul 30 A current Linked (Open) Data System at Geoscience Australia
- Presenter: Nicholas Car
- Event: 2017 June Open Data Community Forum
- About: a demo of a current LD system at Geoscience Australia
2017 Jul 20 Libraries & Linked Data - From a Linked Data point of view
- Presenter: Nicholas Car
- Event: 2017 Aust. Parliamentary Libraries Assoc. Conference
- About: thoughts on libraries’ role in LD and LD in general
2017 Apr 05 Australia’s distributed national spatial dataset production systems and community
- Presenter: Nicholas Car
- Event: WWW2017 World Wide Web conference, W3C session
- About: current state of LD adoption in the Australian spatial government sector
2017 Mar 25 Examining best practice methods for publishing structured data and linking government data
- Presenter: Armin Haller
- Event: 2017 Australian Government Data Summit
- About: Why should we use LD to publish public sector information?
2017 Mar 22 The Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
- Presenter: Nicholas Car
- Event: 2017 March Open Data Community Forum
- About: short intro to the AGLDWG

2019

July
- Extended Semantic Web Conference 2-6 Jun 2019, Portoroz, Slovenia
  https://2019.eswc-conferences.org/
  An international Semantic Web conference
  Attending: Nicholas Car (presenting on the WG’s involvement in Australian national techology projects) & Armin Haller (chairing sessions)

2018

May
- C3DIS 30 May 2018, Melbourne
  http://www.c3dis.com
  The Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science, building on CSIRO’s Computational and Simulation Sciences and eResearch Conferences
  Attending: Simon Cox (presenting on the WG’s PID system) and Jonathan Yu

2017

December
- Modelling and Simulation Conference (MODSIM)
  3-8 December 2017, Hobart
  http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2017/
  Australia & NZ’s largest modelling conference that occurs every 2 years. Linked Data appears here and there
  Attending: Nicholas Car (running a provenance session), Simon Cox, members from GA
October
- eResearch Australasia
  16–20 October 2017, Brisbane
  https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/
  Some sessions include vocabulary and Semantic Web work
  Attending: TBA
August
- Annual General Meeting
  3 August 2017, LF Crisp Building, ANU
  The regular Linked Data WG’s AGM. Come to find out more about the group
  Attending: all members + public
July
- The CSIRO Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (CSS)
  17-20 July 2017, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
  https://wp.csiro.au/c3dis/
  “aims to build a national community of practice of scientists, researchers, and computing, data and information management specialists from publically funded Australian research organisations”
  Attending: Nicholas Car
- Public Sector Innovation Network (PSIN) - ‘Making it Happen’ workshop
  25 July, 2017, Hobart
  https://innovation.govspace.gov.au/public-sector-innovation-network
  “to look at the emerging field of data/knowledge ontology, a key to transforming government efficiently”
  Attending: John Machin
- Australasian Parliamentary Libraries Association (APLA) Conference for 2017
  20 July 2017, ACT Legislative Assembly
  The annual Australasian Parliamentary Libraries Association conference with a particular focus on Linked Data in 2017
  Attending: Nicholas Car
- GovHack
  28-30 July 2017, multiple locations
  https://www.govhack.org/
  “an annual open data competition. Teams have 46 hours to create a project page, proof of concept and a video that tells the story of how government open data can be reused”
  Attending: Steven da Costa (likely)
June
- Government Open Data Forum
  30 June 2017, ABS office nationwide
  Nicholas Car presenting “A current Link (Open) Data system at Geoscience Australia” (slides)
  Attending: Nicholas Car
May
- Linking Data and Samples Symposium
  29 May - 2 June 2017, CSIRO Black Mountain, Canberra
  https://csiro-enviro-informatics.github.io/environmental-data-symposium-2017/
  “Linking Environmental Data and Samples will bring together leading researchers in earth and environmental informatics, to establish the current state of the art in environmental science data publication and its use of modern web principles.”
  Attending: Simon Cox (event convener), Nicholas Car, Armin Haller
April
- 26th International World Wide Web Conference
  3-7 April, 2017, Perth
  http://www2017.com.au
  Many Semantic Web and Linked Data-related sessions and a W3C technical stream meeting
  Attending: Armin Haller, Nicholas Car