Archive for May, 2011

NHS Jargon RDF

Posted by Knud on May 16th, 2011

Did you feel it? The LOD Cloud just grew again by a tiny fraction: https://kantenwerk.org/metadata/nhs_jargon.rdf. While playing around with triplifying some NHS data, I started making notes about the various acronyms used in there. I noted a link to the brilliantly named Jargon Buster and thought “Why don’t I triplify that?”. It would provide me with a good resource to link the actual data to.

This little project was an opportunity to try out the very cool ScraperWiki. One thing led to another, after a short while I arrived at this scraper, and eventually the final Jargon RDF was done. Now on to the actual task at hand…

NHS Jargon Buster Scraper