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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
Credits
• ePublicist on flickr
• detritus. Blog
• yellow stars by christmasstockimages.com
