Awash With Data Thoughts on the nature of the Linked Data web Leigh Dodds Platform Programme Manager Talis OKCon 28 th March 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antmoose/37613855/

Water 3 part molecule. Molecules that link

The RDF Triple Molecular Data

RDF Graph

Linked Data Cloud

http://flickr.com/photos/altemark/273968506/ Forms of Data Usage

http://flickr.com/photos/pearbiter/190703872/ Streams Data flowing from a person or application

http://flickr.com/photos/jamesjordan/2909039191 Pools Aggregated data. Deeper

http://flickr.com/photos/garyjd/73332113 Reservoir Built for a purpose. Serve a community

http://flickr.com/photos/-wit-/1859812082/ Data Access Methods Trawling for Data

Data Composition Respecting Governance & Licensing http://flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/1068925369

http://flickr.com/photos/sgooglesgoogle/150788155 Emergent Properties More is different

http://flickr.com/photos/89241789@N00/172762895 Exploiting the Aggregate Database of Intentions. Data analysis

http://flickr.com/photos/wolfgangstaudt/2354083389 Economies of Scale Quality of Service. Redundancy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudumomo/2981028704/ Talis Connected Commons Free Hosting for Public Domain Data

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grendelkhan/245011850/ Talis Connected Commons For Public Domain Data Open Data Commons PDDL Creative Commons CC0 Free Hosting Providing Storage for 50 million triples Linked Data services SPARQL Query Endpoint http://www.talis.com/cc

For Public Domain Data

Open Data Commons PDDL

Creative Commons CC0

Free Hosting Providing

Storage for 50 million triples

Linked Data services

SPARQL Query Endpoint

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