Towards a Web of Data?

Towards a Web of Data? Paul Miller The Cloud of Data paul.miller@cloudofdata.com cloudofdata.com

Today’s a “Web of Documents” ? cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/calliope/306564541/

Tomorrow’s “Semantic Web,” 2001-style! http://tr.im/timbl http://tr.im/hendler cloudofdata.com www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web

Pipe Dream? cloudofdata.com

Or are the pieces falling into place? cloudofdata.com

cloudofdata.com bit.ly/gAfwK

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itinerary… enriched with maps, weather, etc cloudofdata.com

itinerary… in calendar, on iPhone, etc cloudofdata.com

simply making an existing task easier and richer text processing, back-end knowledge, APIs semantic knowledge of place, time, etc valuable data on intentions, choices, preferences and more adds value, without shouting about it. cloudofdata.com

From DARPA’s CALO Project… to the iPhone cloudofdata.com bit.ly/dawiYQ

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voice recognition lots and lots of data… ideally via APIs keeps data fresh, increases opportunities for cash, makes it an SEP leverage knowledge of time, place, and history ‘a cab from here to work, tomorrow morning’ semantic smarts ‘cheap sushi’ and ‘great sushi’ require analysis of different data, and may result in different recommendations. cloudofdata.com

understanding language... cloudofdata.com bit.ly/2WdN7w

finding meaning and associations in text cloudofdata.com

relatively expensive, computationally attempting to understand language and infer meaning promising technology, but... cloudofdata.com

the first big VC engagement with ‘Semantic Web’ cloudofdata.com bit.ly/bncbEA & bit.ly/9iuTKV

community, meet canonical cloudofdata.com

adding structure to information cloudofdata.com

exposing via APIs. Glue for the Web. cloudofdata.com

canonical source for community-enriched data commercial interest free, open, unencumbered… and available for download or linking. cloudofdata.com

cloudofdata.com $100 million $200

cloudofdata.com bit.ly/am57RN [& bit.ly/bqEWsk]

Data tends to remain siloised. cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/wyoming_1/169388525/

wider movement towards ‘Open’ Data “Stop hugging your data...” Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009 bit.ly/ymmpj cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/_-amy-_/3167333250/

previous examples not like this... http://tr.im/timbl http://tr.im/hendler cloudofdata.com www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web

W3C-driven effort. More used - and useful - than PR might imply URI - 1994 XML - 1998 RDF - 1999/ 2004 OWL - 2004 SPARQL - 2008 Applications - 2007/8 cloudofdata.com Image © World Wide Web Consortium

“J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit” cloudofdata.com

http://dbpedia.org/page/J._R._R._Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit predicate http://dbpedia.org/page/The_Hobbit cloudofdata.com

eg Wikipedia data boxes to DBpedia cloudofdata.com

eg UK Gov bit.ly/ztOed cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lorentey/1438477358/

eg BBC cloudofdata.com bbc.co.uk/music/

eg NY Times cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/scobleizer/2510349462/

Data OPEN for use and re-use… But that’s not all... cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/virtualsugar/316200555/

Data LINKED to other places outside firewall eg BBC trusts and relies upon MusicBrainz bit.ly/9tBJGH cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/foxypar4/2124673642/

“the Web done right” Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2008 harks back to TimBL’s original vision cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tanaka/3212373419/ for a Read/Write Web

Use URIs to name things Use HTTP URIs so that they can be followed When someone follows a URI, provide useful information Include links to other URIs, so that more can be discovered. cloudofdata.com www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

ECS South- Sem- Wiki- BBC Surge ampton LIBRIS Web- company Playcount Radio Central RDF Data ohloh Resex Doap- Buda- Music- space Semantic ReSIST brainz Audio- pest Eurécom Project Flickr Web.org MySpace Scrobbler QDOS SW BME Wiki exporter Wrapper Conference IRIT Corpus Toulouse RAE National BBC BBC Crunch 2001 Science FOAF SIOC ACM BBC Music Later + John Base Revyu Foundation Jamendo Peel profiles Sites TOTP Open- Guides DBLP flickr RKB Project Pub Geo- Euro- wrappr Explorer Guten- Virtuoso Guide names stat Pisa CORDIS berg Sponger eprints BBC Programmes Open Calais RKB riese World Linked ECS Magna- Fact- MDB IEEE New- South- tune book ampton castle RDF Book DBpedia Mashup Linked GeoData lingvoj Freebase LAAS- US CiteSeer Census CNRS W3C DBLP Data IBM WordNet Hannover UniRef GEO UMBEL Species DBLP Gov- Track Berlin Reactome LinkedCT UniParc Open Taxonomy Cyc Yago Drug PROSITE Daily Bank Med Pub GeneID Chem Homolo KEGG UniProt Gene Pfam ProDom Disea- CAS Gene some ChEBI Ontology Symbol OMIM Inter Pro UniSTS PDB HGNC MGI PubMed As of July 2009 cloudofdata.com richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/lod-datasets_2009-07-14.pdf

Open Data need not be Linked Data (eg US Data.gov) Linked Data need not be Open Data (licensing hell) cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/joevare/3743653601/

how much mis-licensed? ‘Copyright’ MAY NOT APPLY! cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ldodds/4043803502/

cut costs, mass produce, standardise - create opportunities for growth What does this mean for Enterprise? Data as Commodity cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/starrett/3123216825/

Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin With data in the Cloud, barriers get lower. It’s easier to TRY... cloudofdata.com www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aerial-1000.jpg

Boundaries blur, walls (like this one) fall. Data and processes move back and forth. Fears eventually diminish. cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/andrei_dimofte/1590561883/

“from Data Centre to data-centric” JP Rangaswami, 2009 data is a cost we treat all data as Core and confidential most actually Context and a commodity cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dsifry/2104378305/ Think Different!

Closing Thoughts cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/king-edward/2152782252/

semantics on the web bring value sometimes solving quite narrow problems The Semantic Web is part of that but only part Open Data creates opportunities, and challenges business models Linked Data takes us beyond speciﬁc applications This isn’t just for the public sector. cloudofdata.com www.ﬂickr.com/photos/king-edward/2152782252/

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