The DataTank at ogdcamp Warsaw

Follow the stars RESTful publishing of high

level Open Data

Miel Vander Sande (Ghent University – IBBT - MultimediaLab)

Pieter Colpaert (iRail NPO)

Missionary work Spreading awareness

make your stuff available on the web (whatever format)

Organising events Bringing data owners

& consumers together

make your stuff available on the web (whatever format)

Structure your data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)

Good example Open data in Vienna

Structure your data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)

But… we can always do better

Business intelligence

Direct access for Apps

Community contact

Automatic documentation

More formats

Semantics

Feedback

Versioning

Structure your data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)

But… with minimal effort

for the data owner

A data adapter Improving the web’s serendipity

PHP 5.3 RESTful Distributed

Non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel)

One PUT request Feedback Versioning

Non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel)

Business intelligence Automatic

documentation

Web of things ready Identifying real world objects

Use URI to identify, output RDF

http://datatank.demo.ibbt.be/vienna/libraries

http://datatank.demo.ibbt.be/vienna/libraries.json

VS

Elaborating your data Adding semantics

Use URI to identify, output RDF

With optional basic ontology…

Automatic enrichment

Ontology mapping

RDF Serialising

Ontology sharing

First stable release The 5th of December

Feeling adventurous? Fork us on Github!

https://github.com/iRail/The-DataTank

pieter@thedatatank.com @pietercolpaert miel.vandersande@ugent.be @miel_vds

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Questions?

Credits

• ePublicist on flickr

• detritus. Blog

• yellow stars by christmasstockimages.com