cloudofdata.com Paul Miller The Cloud of Data [email protected] Unlocking the Database of Intentions
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Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
Unlocking theDatabase of Intentions
cloudofdata.com2005 - chapter on Database of Intentions
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Database of Intentions
aggregated from all our touches online - some implicit, some explicit
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Attention Data
conscious granting of scarce attention to a specific resource
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ImplicitAggregate
Explicit
cloudofdata.com Libraries can benefit tooeg Huddersfield… and MOSAIC
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN?‘core’ book is out; read alternate?read around the subject?lecturer; only 10% of your reading list is being borrowed; rethink?core book is out of print; buy alternate?‘core’ book is out of print; REPRINT ?
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A Web of Data?
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Web built on connections between documents...
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...but ultimately about connections between people
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Data less connected - more siloised.
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“Stop hugging your data...”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
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bit.ly/409WWE
...and people are!
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eg UK Gov
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bit.ly/ztOedImage © 2009, Crown Copyright Reserved
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eg NY Times
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eg Wikipedia data boxes to DBpedia
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Data OPEN for use and re-use But that’s not all...
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Data LINKED to other places outside firewalleg BBC trusts and relies upon MusicBrainz
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“the Web done right”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2008
harks back to TimBL’s original vision for a Read/Write Web
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Use URIs to name things
Use HTTP URIs so that they can be followed
When someone follows a URI, provide useful information
Include links to other URIs, so that more can be discovered.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
As of July 2009
LinkedCTReactome
Taxonomy
KEGG
PubMed
GeneID
Pfam
UniProt
OMIM
PDB
SymbolChEBI
Daily Med
Disea-some
CAS
HGNC
InterPro
Drug Bank
UniParc
UniRef
ProDom
PROSITE
Gene Ontology
HomoloGene
PubChem
MGI
UniSTS
GEOSpecies
Jamendo
BBCProgrammes
Music-brainz
Magna-tune
BBCLater +TOTP
SurgeRadio
MySpaceWrapper
Audio-Scrobbler
LinkedMDB
BBCJohnPeel
BBCPlaycount
Data
Gov-Track
US Census Data
riese
Geo-names
lingvoj
World Fact-book
Euro-stat
flickrwrappr
Open Calais
RevyuSIOCSites
Doap-space
Flickrexporter
FOAFprofiles
CrunchBase
Sem-Web-
Central
Open-Guides
Wiki-company
QDOS
Pub Guide
RDF ohloh
W3CWordNet
OpenCyc
UMBEL
Yago
DBpedia
Freebase
Virtuoso Sponger
DBLPHannover
IRIT Toulouse
SWConference
Corpus
RDF Book Mashup
Project Guten-berg
DBLPBerlin
LAAS- CNRS
Buda-pestBME
IEEE
IBM
Resex
Pisa
New-castle
RAE 2001
CiteSeer
ACM
DBLP RKB
Explorer
eprints
LIBRIS
SemanticWeb.org
Eurécom
RKBECS
South-ampton
CORDIS
ReSIST ProjectWiki
NationalScience
Foundation
ECS South-ampton
LinkedGeoData
BBC Music
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Open Data need not be Linked Data(eg US Data.gov)
Linked Data need not be Open Data(licensing hell)
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how much mis-licensed?‘Copyright’ MAY NOT APPLY!
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©does not apply
common to try to copyright data… or to use a CC license to ‘do the right thing’. Copyright does not apply, and as CC based on copyright, CC doesn’t work either.
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wiki.creativecommons.org/CCZero
Image for illustrative purposes. I am not applying a CC0 license to this presentation.
Contract Law works… or initiatives such as CC0 and Open Data Commons.
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Data as Commodity
cut costs, mass produce, standardise - create opportunities for growth
What does this mean for Enterprise?
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Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin With data in the Cloud, barriers get lower.
It’s easier to TRY...
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Boundaries blur, walls (like this one) fall.Data and processes move back and forth.Fears eventually diminish.
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“from Data Centre to data-centric”JP Rangaswami, 2009
data is a costwe treat all data as Core and confidentialmost actually Context and a commodityThink Different!
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Closing Thoughts
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The Web is about connections
Data today often best connected inside silos
Simple principles of Linked Data create opportunities to manipulate data at Web scale
Licensing frameworks emerging
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And in the Library?
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institutions making their own data work harder
community benefits
stock management, etc?
wider value
publishers reprinting popular titles
detailed usage statistics
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Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
skype: cloudofdata
phone: +44 7769 740083
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