open data for enterprises

What does Open Data mean for Enterprises? Why Linked Open Data meets Business Needs Andreas Blumauer Semantic Web Company (SWC) http://www.semantic-web.at OKFN / OGD Austria http://www.opendata.at OKCon 2011, Berlin July, 1st, 2011

About me/us
Andreas Blumauer
Business Informatics, University of Vienna Wien
Working on Semantic Technologies since 2001
Founder and CEO of Semantic Web Company
1998 Foundation of punkt. netServices in Vienna
2004 Foundation of Semantic Web School
2007 Renaming to Semantic Web Company (SWC)
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Agenda
Open Data – Clash of Cultures?
Typical questions about Open Data in Business environments
Why Linked Open Data is relevant for business people?
Examples of Linked Open Data Applications
Conclusio

Open Data? What business people really hear. © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Open Data! Why should we use Open Data? Isn´t open data just more data? Don´t we have enough data yet? Why should we open our data?

Open? Sorry, we are closed! © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ On some days I´d like to jump!

Clash of cultures © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/

Toilet finders are really cool – but how to make money with it? © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://beta.findtoilet.dk/ http://data.wien.gv.at/ ?

The critical point (1)
Open data is
obviously socio-politically relevant and it is also quite clear
how to reduce administrative costs

Example: Reduce administrative costs
“ In California visitors to the State’s spending transparency website report unnecessary spending to the government and, after only a few months of operation, the website had already saved the state over $20 million .”
From: United Nations e-Government Summary 2010
© Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ By ORDENssekretariat.at via Wikimedia Commons

The critical point (2)
„ Open data“ is not
meant to be used for traditional business talk
enterprises are willing to pay (a lot of) money for the generation or consumption of high-quality data
but „Open data“ can/could trigger new businesses built around new eco-systems

Even „hard facts“ won´t help © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/

Three ways to make use of open data in Enterprises © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/
Use open data from the web
Publish open data on the web
Make use of open data principles internally

Typical questions about Open Data in business environments Is the data published under a well known license? Is it stable? Can we trust the author? Is the source reliable? Can we process the data in our intranet? Is it in the cloud? Is the data up-to-date? What is the economic value of using open data for us? Can we get the data in a format/standard which we can process? Are we allowed to mash the data with ours, can we afford the costs to that? Does data quality correspond to our criteria?

Legal issues, to begin with Are we allowed to mash the data with ours? © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Is the data published under a well known license? Is it stable?

Hyperdata = Linked Data = Interoperable Data
Web of Data  Hyperdata
Data on the Web (Open Data)
Web of Documents  Hypertext
Documents on the Web

Open Data can be linked!!! © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Can we trust the author? Is the source reliable? Can we get the data in a format/standard which we can process? Why should data be linked ?

Recent Survey Results (June 2011) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Do you think enterprises and other organizations can significantly benefit from using Linked Data? Total: 158 people, online survey conducted by SWC Between April and May 2011 - http://bit.ly/jfIVyY

Open Data? There are still „other“ urgent questions around © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ How will customers find and understand our offers better? How to improve communication between our stakeholders? How can employees find relevant information efficiently? How to integrate data? How to extract information from data? How to publish (interoperable) data on the web? Product Management/Marketing „ Semantic Search“ Organisation Development „ Collaboration“ Information Management „ Mashups“ IT-Management „ Interoperability“ Content Management „ Annotation“ Media & Administration „ Network effects“

Two perspectives on data standards & linked data © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ There are reasons for technicians as well as for end-users to use linked data based on standards

For technicians: Why Linked Data? (1) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Data integration realised on application level

For technicians: Why Linked Data? (2) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Integration on data level Application

Cost of data integration – two approaches © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Source: Price Waterhouse Coopers – Technology Forecast, Spring 2009 Can we afford to mash the data with ours?

For end-users: Why Linked Data?
In case you´re looking for a pizzeria in your neighbourhood
In case you want to know more about Einstein
Do you want to discover new relations and ask complex questions?

Better support for knowledge workers, decision makers & researchers © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ What is the economic value of using open data for us?
Select all proteins that are linked to a curated interaction from the literature and to inflammatory response
Select all proteins that are linked to a curated molecular interaction, to inflammatory response and to a target of existing drug
Select drugs related to asthma that are linked to a curated molecular interaction in the literature where the protein is known to cause inflammatory response
Select all located in Y-chromosome human genes
Select all located in Y-chromosome, human genes with known molecular interactions, which are analysed with 'Transfection’
Documents, which describe relation between white blood cells, respiration disorders and tobacco smoke
What are the exclusion criteria for studies that use as intervention drug treating respiratory diseases?
Is there provenance for causal relations between COX-1, COX2, eicosanoids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)?
http://linkedlifedata.com/sparql

More context information © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone/ What is the economic value of using open data for us?

DBpedia Live © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Is the data up-to-date? http://live.dbpedia.org/ Does data quality correspond to our criteria? Data curation via „Crowd-Sourcing“ Live Extraction Data curation via „Reasoning“ Data quality improvement

Linked Open Data? Example: BBC Music & Nature (1) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/

Linked Open Data? Example: BBC Music & Nature (2) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/0bbbc496-c7b5-4b3f-bb6d-bd312827d6e5.rdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Leopard.rdf

BBC Music & Nature: Focus & Benefit © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ How will customers find and understand our offers better? How to improve communication between our stakeholders? How can employees find relevant information efficiently? How to integrate data? How to extract information from data? How to publish (interoperable) data on the web? Self Service / Recommender Vocabulary Management Enterprise Search Linked Data Text Mining (Linked) Open Data

Linked Open Data? Example: Reegle (1) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search http://data.reegle.info/

Linked Open Data? Example: Reegle (2) © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search http://data.reegle.info/

Reegle: Focus & Benefit © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ How will customers find and understand our offers better? How to improve communication between our stakeholders? How can employees find relevant information efficiently? How to integrate data? How to extract information from data? How to publish (interoperable) data on the web? Product Management/Marketing „ Semantic Search“ Organisation Development „ Collaboration“ Information Management „ Mashups“ IT-Management „ Interoperability“ Content Management „ Annotation“ Media & Administration „ Network effects“

New businesses in a linked data value chain © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/ Source: Atif Latif et al

Conclusio: Open your data - the RDF way! © Semantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.at/
Enterprises seek for solutions which can digest data from the web AND from the intranet to mash them
Linked open data can help to extend existing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions
Enterprises tend to standardize ways to process information, RDF could be a proper solution for that
 Make use of open data principles internally and link it

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