Introduction
By the end of this Quick Tutorial you will have:
- Your own Personal URI, which will be valid for linking to/from any Linked Data service
- Your own Data Space with Profiling, Social Networking, Blogging and Wiki-ing capability which is fully compliant with Semantic Web and DataPortability standards
Step 1
Go to an OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) instance, such as myopenlink:
https://myopenlink.net/ods/index.html
Step 2
Click the “Sign Up” link which is in the top right hand corner.
Step 3
Create a login name, input a valid email address, and make a password. Check the terms of service and check the box. (Alternatively you can use an OpenID)
Click the “Sign Up” button
Step 4
On the ODS toolbar there is an edit profile link. Click it to edit your profile.
Here you will be able to add your personal information such as name, gender, birthday, personal webpage. An important field on this form is the “Other Identity URIs (synonyms)”, which links your URI with other identities on the web.
You have more tabs to enter details about your Contact information, your Home location and your Business/Work details. You can even hook it into various systems such as Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Flickr and Google.
There is a Made tab, which will link your ODS identity with various other resources that you have made which are on the web, for example this could be a YouTube video, a wikipage or an article.
The related tab is used for creating custom Semantic triples, and could be used for linking to another page/resource about yourself.
Make sure that you click the “Save” button to save those changes.
Step 5
Now that you have finished editing your profile, you have a fully dereferenceable URI. If you click on your username on the top right hand corner, it will take you to your profile page and the address in the browser will be your Personal URI, if you are using Myopenlink.net it will be in the form:
https://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/<Your-Username>#this
For example, my personal URI is:
https://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this
ALL DONE
You can now explore OpenLink Data Spaces a bit more, there are some applications you can instantiate such as blogs, wikis and feed readers. You can also use this