Metadata: Opportunity Knocks by Chris Thorpe

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Chris Thorpe

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A new world or is it.

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The value of metadataA real world example

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Chris Thorpe

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Chris Thorpe

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JAGGEREE/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/clagnut/

FROM THE PRINTING PRESS TO THE API

disruption2.0

HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WORLDECONOMICFORUM/

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/CYCUS/

I believe that the next wave of virtue in society will flow from openness.

Jeff Jarvis

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paying forcontent

HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WORLDECONOMICFORUM/

paying forutilityvs

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This is all very well, but why is it interesting to me?

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/KEVANDOTORG/

It’s the way of the world...

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/EIRIKNEWTH/

Make big things by swapping things in and out

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/KAPTAINKOBOLD/

Make prototypes quickly

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/RICHARD_JONES/

Evolve products to what people actually want

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JOSHLABOTNIK/

Whatever you do, this principle will affect your business.

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/DUNECHASER/

Small pieces of life, loosely joined


The Semantic Web

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/TANAKA/



The Semantic Web

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We live in the age of “point-at-things”

Tom Coates

HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/SIMON/


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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/STARSTREAK/



Need to describe our things better

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thing

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chair


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white chair


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white curvy plastic chair


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white reproduction1973 Verner Panton monobloc chair


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we could tell you whatthis is, but you’ll have to pay us for the metadata


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we make these thingsbut we don’t have themetadata for them


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3 things to learn3 things to think about

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If your business makes things, digital or analogue, and you don’t provide metadata for them, you will become irrelevant in next decade or two (if you’re lucky).

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Objection:People don’t have time to create the metadata, or the skills or tools. This costs money you know.

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Response:Move some marketing budget, make it part of your workflow.

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Openness is critical to any business surviving. There is no closed on the open internet.

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Objection:My intellectual property is in/is my content and it’s metadata. It’s our business, why would we give it away.

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Response:Don’t. Make it part of your business to sell it then. At the moment if people want to work with you, they’re probably having to scrape your website.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/soumit/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/that_kate/

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If you create and publish metadata and let people know what they are allowed to do with it, people will make new and amazing things you’ve never dreamt of.

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Objection:They don’t know our business as well as we do, they’ll only do bad things.

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Response:Not knowing your current business models frees them to invent your next ones. If you treat them well, they’ll only make good things.

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The move towards a machine readable web of data, and social and algorithmic software to consume it, is as unstopppable as a river.

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/NATIONSTUDIO/

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You can’t control it, you can merely accept or at best try to influence. Embrace and enable the change.

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BONNIER HACKDAY

I had a first play with the Guardian APIs yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised by how simple and effective they were...

And, being the kind of childish individual who still gets kicks out of looking rude words up in the dictionary, I decided to use the API to examine changes in obscenity in the last 10 years.

Tom Hume

HTTP://WWW.TOMHUME.ORG/2009/04/TRACKING-UK-LIBERAL-INDECENCY.HTML

HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/ADACTIO/

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http://guardian.mashery.com/








BONNIER HACKDAY

A few observations:Swearing is growing slowly year-on-year, across the board;Unusually, in 2001, swearing stayed more-or-less level. Bastard declined after 2001 - probably an after-effect of 9/11, after which most other swearing grew;Wank is massively underperforming over the last decade, whilst cock is flat;Shit has grown disproportionately and steadily since 2005, whilst fuck has gone as far as it can;

HTTP://WWW.TOMHUME.ORG/2009/04/TRACKING-UK-LIBERAL-INDECENCY.HTML



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In a bid to retain some sense of self-respect, I'll for now ignore the fact that this graph has achieved a readership that dwarfs anything else I've written in my career to date, and focus instead on how I did it.

HTTP://WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK/OPEN-PLATFORM/BLOG/TRENDING-SWEAR-WORDS



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You can’t control it, you can merely accept or at best try to influence. Embrace and enable the change.

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Data is a new material we’re only starting to learn to mould and sculpt. What we’re making now will seem as trivial as early experiments with plastic.

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The new raw materials and data chemistry

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HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/CHEMHERITAGE/




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Thank you

Chris Thorpe@jaggeree


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