Flowing Data through the Talis Platform

Leigh Dodds

Platform Programme Manager, Talis

11th November 2008

SWIG-UK Event

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A (Very Brief) Web History

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Getting Stuff Online

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LinkingInitially manual, with increasing richness

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Search EnginesAutomated Linking

Search Engine Evolution Value-added Features

Community Driven Customisation

The Same Process on the Semantic Web…

Linking

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Semantic Web Search…should be for machines

Semantic Web Searchsome examples

Semantic Search Engine Evolution Value-added Features?

Community Driven Customisation?

VocabularyNormalization

CommunityCompiled Indexes

Type Searching

User DrivenBehaviour

Data Trends

Semantic Search Engine Evolution

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Forms of Data UsageA metaphor…

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StreamsData flowing from a person or application

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PoolsAggregated data. Deeper

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ReservoirBuilt for a purpose. Serve a community

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Emergent PropertiesMore is different

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Exploiting the AggregateDatabase of Intentions. Data analysis

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Economies of ScaleQuality of Service. Redundancy

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Flowing InRESTful Data Management

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Flowing OutSnapshots. SPARQL. OAI-PMH. RSS

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Augmentation Enrichment by Trawling for Data

Store Groups Data Composition. Virtual Reservoirs

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ALL YOUR TRIPLES ARE BELONG TO US.

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