Dr Sabin Buraga Promotes Open Data and Software

Dr. Sabin-Corneliu Buraga – www.purl.org/net/busaco
Dr. Sabin Buraga
Faculty of Computer Science, “A. I. Cuza” of Iasi, Romania
www.purl.org/net/busaco  @busaco4web

open participation
open data
open software
open app development
open web
open cloud
open (computing) hardware
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World Wide Web = “a common information space
in which we communicate by sharing information”
Tim Berners-Lee (2013)

Internet
(Web)
Client Web application Storage
(user interface) server/framework (data persistence)

URL – Uniform Resource Identifier
addressability
Internet
(Web)
for example: http://www.slideshare.net/busaco/presentations/

HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol
access to resources
Internet
(Web)
a browser asks a Web server to provide a resource representation

HTML (HyperText Markup Language), JSON, PDF, PNG,…
representation(s) of a resource
Internet
(Web)
a Web page includes URLs to other resourceshypermedia

Reusing & sharing data available on the Web
data access via a Web service
usually, by using an API
(Application Programming Interface)

Web servicespublic APIsmash-ups
www.programmableweb.com

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open data
“A piece of content or data is open
if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it.”
http://opendefinition.org/

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“If you have access to the data,
then you can achieve continuity
even if you don’t have access to
the underlying source of the application.
Open data is more important than open source. […]
Data persists, open data endures.”
Ian Davis, 2009

legal/technical openness
availability & access
reusing & sharing
universal participation
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inter-operability
opendatahandbook.org

Reusing data available on the Web
necessity of adopting a (re)use license

fair use
public domain
copyleft

Creative Commons

openness, transparency, respect
https://creativecommons.org/

Data availability
on the Web
as “opaque” document
(usually, using a proprietary format)
does not refer – via current Web technologies –
other resources of interest
Tom Health (2007)

Data availability
in the Web
assuring discoverability via hypermedia
uses open data models/formats
(e.g., HTML, XML, JSON, CSV, RDF etc.)
platform independent
Tom Health (2007)

Can we evaluate the data openness?

5 ★ Open Data
Tim Berners-Lee (2009)

1-star data
the content is available on the Web – by using any
format – according to an open license
http://opendefinition.org/licenses/

users can view, print, locally store,
and – eventually – modify the document
the document itself can be shared on the Internet

a PDF containing a scanned image ☹

the document could be easily published on the Web
in order to reuse the data kept into the document,
additional processing might be necessary

2-star data
additionally, the content must be available
as structured data (e.g., relations between entities)

users can process the document by using, in most cases,
a proprietary software application
the document can be exported
into another (structured) format

a proprietary format
containing structured data ☹

the document can be easily published on the Web
data is still “locked” into the document +
processing is depending by a specific application

3-star open data
using an open (non-proprietary) format
to make data available on the Web

same content as HTML document ☺
<section>
<p>10:15 – 11:00</p>
<p>Towards 5-Star Data in the E-university</p>
<p>Presenter: Sabin Buraga</p>
</section>

data can be managed (viewed, processed, filtered,
converted, shared, reused, etc.) in any manner
important aspect: platform independence

the document is still rather simple to be published on Web
exporting data into a proprietary format
could be problematic

4-star open data
each “thing” (entity) of interest from the document
is denoted by a Web address – URL

data, information, and knowledge are identified via URLs
in order to be accessed and (re)used
RDF model (Resource Description Framework)
W3C standards (1998, 2004, 2014)
www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/

machine-friendly RDF assertions ☺
<div resource="#busaco" typeof="Person">
<a property="url" href="http://purl.org/net/busaco">
<span property="name">Sabin Buraga</span>
</a>
</div>

content publishing could be much difficult, employing
the adoption of the semantic Web – or Web of Data –
technologies, tools, and methodologies
data in the Weblong term implications

5-star open data
additionally, data is inter-connected to other
datasets, according to the linked data initiative
http://linkeddata.org/

inter-connecting open datasets ☺
http://lod4all.net/

possibility to discover other (related) data of interest
while consuming the datanetwork effect
other advantage: Web-based automatic reasoning

difficulties:
assuring data/knowledge consistency
problems related to slow adoption

5stardata.info
Michael Hausenblas (2012)

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make your stuff available on the Web
(whatever format) under an open license
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make it available as structured data
e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table
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use non-proprietary formats
e.g., CSV (Comma Separated Values) instead of Excel
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use Web addresses (URLs) to denote things,
so that people can point at your stuff
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link your data to other data – see http://datahub.io/ –
to provide context
Ed Summers (2010)

Several real-life examples
(in the academic context)?

Dr. Sabin Buragawww.purl.org/net/busaco
augmenting the current Web search activities
Google knowledge graph – see schema.org & rdfa.info

freely available knowledge bases: DBpedia & Freebase
http://en.lodlive.it/

open e-science – see myexperiment.org

open e-government
access to official data according to the openness score
http://data.gov.uk/data/search?openness_score=5

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promoting open data & open software
student workshops & contests co-organized by
Faculty of Computer Science – UAIC Romania
Design Jam Iasi (3 editions), Firefox OS App Day, Firefox
OS Hackathon, Open Source Iasi, Winter Web Workshop
and many others

open access to various student projects & initiatives
Faculty of Computer Science – UAIC Romania
http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~stefan.negru/studentprojects/

open access to various
educational resources
Faculty of Computer Science
UAIC Romania
http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~busaco/teach/

“Software – as a service or not – is just a container.
What makes software valuable has always been what
it does to data. Now, in the same spirit of SOA (Service
Oriented Architecture) and SaaS (Software As A Service),
a new concept is emerging, Data-as-a-Service – DaaS.”
Pete Soderling (2010)

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