degrees of openness

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markets

• A closed market is a crippled

market

• An open market is larger than the

sum of its parts

• Data services is one part of the

equation

• Added-value Services completes it

256 apps

barriers

• Old mechanisms for profit may

not work in the new world

• Restrictions on licensing may

well be a restriction on growth

• Do not localise your horizon

awareness

• Not knowing what I can do

means not doing it

• Usage must be a determining

factor in looking forward

• Knowing the benefits is half the

journey

discovery

• If I can’t find it, it does not

exists in my world...

• Finding data is a topological

adventure

quality

• A rose by any other name IS

NOT still a rose

• Metadata, metadata, metadata

openness

• Available, reusable,

unrestricted (it can be

conditioned)

• Of good quality, with good

metadata

• Linked and with supporting

infrastructures

We are aiming for…

• We search in the data not for

the data (results bring back content not

just references to content)

• Data IS the interface