Gangplank

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Drivers

● Should our open data platform be closed source?● Massive advances in tools

● Elasticsearch for faceted search● Visualisation – Gcharts/d3js.org/others● AWS for deployments● Shibboleth Authentication● Google/OpenRefine● Network Effect - Schema Mapping● PubSubHubBub● SemWeb / 4Store / other triple store

Drivers

● Not adverse to commercial support● But to leverage leading edge tools, we need a

platform we can extend

Development plan

● DRY● CSV/TSV Libraries● Elasticsearch as a storage mechanism● Google Charts● AWS as deployment● Wire together in less than a day – Functional CSV

upload, Download, Review.

Current Work / Backlog

● Active– Mapping and Schemas

● Backlog– Visualisation

– Shibboleth

– Redbridge Download Agent

– Pubsubhubbub

Demo