Playing with LINCS APIs 

The Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) has developed several Application fProgramming Interfaces (APIs) that enable developers to access LINCS datasets and tools. In this workshop, we will provide an overview of how LINCS data is modelled as Linked Open Data (LOD), and introduce participants to the LINCS authority service, LINCS API, and the Linked Data Enhancement API. These APIs allow developers to access LINCS services that can reconcile entities, perform named entity recognition (NER), clean and massage RDF data for researcher datasets, and look up entities and their properties in the LINCS datasets.

We will provide an overview of the available functionality and how to use it using example requests sent with Postman and cURL to the APIs. We will also look at a real-world implementation in the form of the LINCS Context Explorer, which is also available as a library for embedding within websites, demonstrating how linked data can enrich websites without modifying the underlying data.

This workshop is suitable for developers, researchers, and students with advanced technical skills who are interested in utilizing LINCS tools, and who know how to use APIs and understand the basics of LOD. We will canvas registrants in advance to discover their interests, and view this as an opportunity for connecting collaboratively with developers interested in leveraging linked data within their web environments.

Led by Alliyya Mo and Kim Martin

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.