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On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:47:39 GMT
In Open Data on the Web, 23 - 24 April 2013, London (Home)
At
http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/From Toronto to Taipei, from Washington to
Wellington via Westminster, data hubs are being
created by public bodies from single cities
through to supra national organizations like the
European Union and the World Bank. But it's not
only public bodies. Away from the public sector
there are community efforts like Open Signal and
Open Street Map and, in retail, thousands of
online retailers mark up their Web pages using the
Good Relations Ontology creating a substantial
pool of structured open data. schema.org has
frameworks to incorporate health and medical data,
events and creative works too. Linked Science is
publishing scientific data and the campaign to see
clinical trial data published is gaining
significant support. Look for a camp site using
PitchUp.com and you'll be able to see how they use
a variety of data sources, some of which are open
… the list goes on
As well the promises of government transparency
and efficiency, the claim that is made most
frequently of open data is that it is the "new
oil" that is driving the digital economy. At this
workshop, participants will discuss their
experiences of realizing this aim and identify
what's needed to make it easier. The main topics
of the Workshop will be:
discoverability;
transformation (to other formats);
combinations of data from different models
(e.g. linked data and CSV);
quality assessment and self-description;
extracting human-readable "stories" from
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Karl Dubost
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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