A set of slides from the talk presented at the Opening up Product Data event at the Hub Westminister on the 23rd of January 2014.

1. Open Knowledge Repositories:
Enablers of Data Integration across
Business Collaborations
Monika Solanki
Aston University
m.solanki@aston.ac.uk
@nimonika

2. Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter,
But Open Data Makes Them Richer
An open data strategy should be a top priority for any
organization that uses the Web as a channel for delivering
goods and services.
Gartner Inc., August 2012

3. Open data enables Data Integration
• Transparency/visibility
• Provenance
• Consumer awareness
• Compliance with regulations
• Business opportunities

4. Data integration adds value in unexpected ways
• Encourages the development of mashups/tools that
facilitate browsing and visualising of the integrated
information
• Reduces redundancy within and across organisational
information infrastructures.
• Helps deriving new knowledge from existing information by
exploiting machine interpretation of data.
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• Facilitates the discovery of new datasets.

5. Open Product Data: Use cases from FIspace
Future Internet Business Collaboration Networks in
Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics
• Meat Information Provenance
• Import and export of consumer goods
• Tailored Information for Consumers
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Helping consumers to obtain better information on the goods they purchase,
and producers to better control the flow of their goods to the consumer

6. Realising the vision: Technical perspective
• Accessible data, available to use without restrictions on
format or licensing.
• Decentralised and scalable architecture.
• Standardised and a variety of data structures/formats.
• Shared domain knowledge.
W Contextual identification of data elements that enable cross
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referencing across datasets.
• APIs.