Here Be Dragons Knowing Where the World Ends Leigh Dodds Chief Technology Officer Ingenta

MEDIEVAL MAPPING

LANDMARKS Defining landmarks on the open data landscape

Points of Reference

Five W’s (and one H) I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling, “ The Elephant’s Child”, 1902

FRBR

Data Standards

Measuring Success

SAFE GROUND How do we know what is stable territory?

Preservation "...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1791

Publishers & the DOI

EXPOSURE What are our points of exposure?

Legal Issues

Data Security

BARTERING WITH THE NATIVES How do we enable free exchange of data?

Due Diligence

Me an s of Access

THE WARY TRAVELLER Some thoughts on data portability

Return of the King

CONCLUSIONS Questions? Images courtesy of Wikipedia & Karen’s Whimsy