The document discusses the integration and management of open data in Ireland's marine sector, guided by the principles of the semantic web to create a more interconnected database. It highlights the roles of various data suppliers, including public bodies and researchers, alongside the services offered by the Digital Ocean platform. The aim is to enhance data accessibility and usability for end users in public services, research, and commercial innovation.

1. Linking Open Data in Ireland’s Digital
Ocean
Adam Leadbetter
Team Leader for Data Management, Marine Institute
18th May 2016

2. “If HTML and the World Wide Web made all the
online documents look like one huge book, the
Semantic Web will make all the data in the world
look like one huge database.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Weaving The Web
1999
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4. Unique identifier - URL
When the
identifier is
looked up
something
standard
happens
Links to other
sites which may
be of interest
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5. http://5stardata.info/images/5-star-steps.png

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7. https://github.com/adamml/LinkedOceanDataCloud

8. Data Suppliers
• Public bodies
• Researchers
• Public
• Industry (compliance)
Digital Ocean
Platform
• Data management
• Integration
• Publishing services
Digital Ocean
Services
• Data services
• Analytics
• Information delivery
End Users
• Public services
• Research
• Commercial innovation
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9. http://www.opengovintelligence.eu/

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11. http://www.digitalocean.ie/Dashboard/Galway

12. “There are emergent technologies
throughout the fields around
oceanography which we will incorporate
into oceanography, and through that
convergence we will make oceanography
into something even more magical”
John Delaney
University of Washington
Mission Blue Voyage TED Talk
April 2010
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13. Thank you
adam.leadbetter@marine.ie