The document discusses the importance of open data for enterprises, highlighting how linked open data can meet business needs by integrating external data with internal databases. It emphasizes the need for standards and structured data to enable effective data linking and usage. Survey results indicate a positive perception of open data's economic benefits and support for semantic web standards in data portals.

1. Open Data for Enterprises
powered by: Why Linked Open Data
meets Business Needs
Andreas Blumauer
Semantic Web Company (SWC)
http://www.semantic-web.at
OKFO / OGD Austria
http://www.opendata.at
Vienna
March 22nd, 2012

2. Short Bio
• Mag. Andreas Blumauer
– Business Informatics, University of Vienna
– Working on Semantic Technologies since 2001
– Founder and CEO of Semantic Web Company
since 2004
Business needs Spirit of the web
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3. Open Data?
What business people really hear.
Open Data!
Why should
we use
Open Data?
Why should
we open our
data?
Isn´t open
Don´t we have
data just
enough data yet?
more data?
We need more
knowledge!
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4. „Open data“ as one-way-street?
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5. Open data 1.0
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7. Open data 2.0
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Smart products
Smart systems
Citizens
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8. Govs, media & enterprises and their
concerns about „open data“
1. Completeness
2. Primacy
3. Timeliness
4. Non-discrimination
5. Ease of Physical and Electronic Access
6. Machine readability
7. Use of Commonly Owned Standards
8. Licensing
We need SLAs,
trustworthy
sources and
means for data
integration
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9. Core competencies
Media/Data Enter
broker prises
• provide immediate and • ability to link data in a way
uniform programmatic access that customers benefit from
to datasets integrated views
• data maintenance • domain knowledge
• provide open standards •data visualisation/interaction
• cataloguing and indexing of • communicate and distribute
data from different sources (value of) the data
• enrichment of raw data with •assess the need for data
additional metadata
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10. The critical point
• Open data
• is obviously socio-politically relevant
• helps to reduce administrative costs
• is kind of an infrastructure which is
„invisible“ for the business community
• But to make it attractive for enterprises
• open/external data obviously should be
integrated with internal databases
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11. Three ways to make use of
open data in Enterprises
• Make use of
• Use open data open data principles
from the web internally
• Publish open data
on the web
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12. When Open Data is structured based
on standards it can be linked easily
Why should we use
standards? We have
APIs and XML.
Why should
data be
linked?
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13. Two perspectives on
data standards & linked data
There are reasons for
technicians as well as for
end-users to use linked
data based on standards
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14. For technicians: Why Linked Data?
Data integration realised on application level
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15. For technicians: Why Linked Data?
The RDF way
Application
Integration on data level
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16. For end-users: Why Linked Data?
In case you´re looking for a
pizzeria in your neighbourhood
In case you want to know more
about Einstein
Do you want to discover new
relations and ask complex
questions?
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17. Survey results (preview) 2012
Open Data generates economic benefit
especially when data can be linked in new ways.
MAYBE: 21.6%
NO: 1.8%
YES: 75.7%
Total: 113 people, online survey conducted by SWC
March 2012 - https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012
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18. Survey results (preview) 2012
When establishing a new data portal, should open
semantic web standards be offered from the very
beginning?
NO: 2.7%
LATER: 14.4%
YES: 82.9%
Total: 113 people, online survey conducted by SWC
March 2012 - https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012
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19. Survey results (preview) 2012
What are the most relevant options for enterprises
to make use of open government data ?
Visualizations: 71.7%
Apps: 73.9% BI: 63.0%
Total: 113 people, online survey conducted by SWC
March 2012 - https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012
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20. Survey results 2012
https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012
Open until March 30th, 2012
Publication: April 2012
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21. BI & Open Data
Reegle‘s country energy profiles: http://www.reegle.info/countries
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22. Data visualization
UK Research Funding Explorer: http://bis.clients.talis.com/
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23. Semantic (Web) Search
Which airlines are
subsidiaries of Lufthansa
and have their
hub airport in Munich?
http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/
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24. Conclusio:
Open your data - the RDF way!
• Enterprises seek for solutions which can
digest data from the web AND from the
intranet to mash them
• Linked open data can help to extend
existing Business Intelligence (BI) and
enterprise search solutions
• Enterprises tend to standardize ways to
process information, RDF is a proper
solution for that
 Make use of open data principles
internally and link it
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25. I-Semantics 2012
5th-7th of September 2012, Graz
http://www.i-semantics.at
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26. SmartWeb.Vienna
23th-24th may 2012, Vienna
http://www.smartwebvienna.at/
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27. Infos & Contact
Mag. Andreas Blumauer
CEO, Semantic Web Company GmbH
Mariahilfer Straße 70
A-1070 Wien, Austria
Web http://www.semantic-web.at
Blog http://blog.semantic-web.at
Twitter http://twitter.com/semwebcompany
XING https://www.xing.com/profile/Andreas_Blumauer
Mail a.blumauer@semantic-web.at
FOAF http://www.semantic-web.at/people/blumauer/card
Phone +43-1-4021235
http://www.slideshare.net/ABLVienna/
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