Optimising your open data for maximised reuse

Presentation given at ESWC2014 at the SALAD2014 workshop

1. Optimising Linked Open Data for maximised reuse Ghent University - MMLab - iMinds Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium @pietercolpaert
4. The gray area of the Web Legal for reuse Put your data in the white area * not actual size
5. Open Definition.org A dataset is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.
6. Why would data owners do that?
7. Why would data owners do that? Be the authoritative source Free apps Because they have to Feedback → data quality ↑ ...
8. Data owners are confused World of APIs ? World of Open Data Create an API or publish Open Data?
9. API users Integrators Type 1 Experts Type 2 Type 3
10. Need services on top of data API users Integrators Type 1 Experts Type 2 Type 3
12. API users Integrators Type 1 Experts Type 2 Type 3 Need Linked Open Data Need services on top of data
13. Data vs. Services Data dumps Cacheable, light- weight hypermedia pages S(PAR)QL service Basic Linked Data Fragments Server Algorithms as a service Data publishing Data services
14. API users Integrators Type 1 Experts Type 2 Type 3 Need Linked Open Data Need services on top of data Business opportunity?
15. What can we do? Ask for openly licensed data Ask for data, not services When in a 5-star data project, set up light- weight data publishing software
16. ELIS - Multimedia Lab Discussion Pieter Colpaert (pieter.colpaert@ugent.be) @pietercolpaert http://semweb.mmlab.be http://pieter.pm