Flowing Data through the Talis Platform Leigh Dodds Platform Programme Manager, Talis 11 th November 2008 SWIG-UK Event http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ http://flickr.com/photos/sethoscope/2168592417

Leigh Dodds

Platform Programme Manager, Talis

11 th November 2008

SWIG-UK Event

A (Very Brief) Web History http://flickr.com/photos/dmealiffe/171720479/

http://flickr.com/photos/maxpower/130960238/ Getting Stuff Online

http://flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2170338717 Linking Initially manual, with increasing richness

http://flickr.com/photos/pleeker/317957043/ Search Engines Automated Linking

Search Engine Evolution Value-added Features Community Driven Customisation

The Same Process on the Semantic Web…

Linking

http://flickr.com/photos/stinkypeter/400077442 Semantic Web Search …should be for machines

Semantic Web Search some examples

Semantic Search Engine Evolution Value-added Features? Community Driven Customisation?

Vocabulary Normalization Community Compiled Indexes Type Searching User Driven Behaviour Data Trends Semantic Search Engine Evolution

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

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/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://flickr.com/photos/sutto007/2703372064 Flowing In RESTful Data Management

http://flickr.com/photos/restlessglobetrotter/2817529044 Flowing Out Snapshots. SPARQL. OAI-PMH. RSS

http://flickr.com/photos/-wit-/1859812082/ Augmentation Enrichment by Trawling for Data

Store Groups Data Composition. Virtual Reservoirs http://flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/1068925369

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