open data for enterprises
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What does Open Data
mean for Enterprises? Why Linked Open Data meets Business Needs
Andreas BlumauerSemantic Web Company (SWC)
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OKFN / OGD Austria http://www.opendata.at OKCon 2011, Berlin
July, 1st, 2011
About me/us
• Andreas Blumauer– Business Informatics, University of Vienna Wien– Working on Semantic Technologies since 2001– Founder and CEO of Semantic Web Company
• 1998 Foundation of punkt. netServices in Vienna
• 2004 Foundation of Semantic Web School• 2007 Renaming to Semantic Web Company
(SWC)• Since 2009 offering PoolParty• Since 2010 partner of LOD2
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Our „eco-system“
• Springer• Semantic Web Meetups• W3C• I-Semantics• Semantic Puzzle• OGD Austria• LOD2 and other research projects• Our customers
– NAVTEQ, Roche, Credit Suisse, Telekom Austria, UNIQA Insurances, Biogen Idec, REEEP, British Museum, Staatliche Museen Berlin, CEH, Education Services Australia, Universität Wien, Wolters Kluwer, Austria Press Agency, Stadt Wien, Austrian Standards Institute, Compass Verlag, …
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OGD Conference 2011, Vienna
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Agenda
• Open Data – Clash of Cultures?• Typical questions about Open Data in
Business environments • Why Linked Open Data is relevant for
business people?• Examples of Linked Open Data
Applications• Conclusio
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Open Data? What business people really hear.
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Open Data!Open Data! Why
should we use Open
Data?
Why should we use Open
Data?
Isn´t open data justmore data?
Isn´t open data justmore data?
Don´t we have
enough data yet?
Don´t we have
enough data yet?
Why should we open our data?
Why should we open our data?
Open? Sorry, we are closed!
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On some days I´d like to jump!
On some days I´d like to jump!
Clash of cultures
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Toilet finders are really cool – but how to make money with it?
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http://beta.findtoilet.dk/
http://data.wien.gv.at/
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The critical point (1)
• Open data is
– obviously socio-politically relevant and it is also quite clear
– how to reduce administrative costs
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Example: Reduce administrative costs
“In California visitors to the State’s spending transparency website report unnecessary spending to the government and, after only a few months of operation, the website had already saved the state over $20 million.”
From: United Nations e-Government Summary 2010
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By ORDENssekretariat.atvia Wikimedia Commons
The critical point (2)
• „Open data“ is not– meant to be used for traditional
business talk– enterprises are willing to pay (a
lot of) money for the generation or consumption of high-quality data
• but „Open data“ can/could trigger new businesses built around new eco-systems
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Even „hard facts“ won´t help
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Three ways to make use of open data in Enterprises
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1. Use open datafrom the web
3. Publish open dataon the web
2. Make use of open data principles internally
Typical questions about Open Data
in business environments
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Is the data published under
a well known license? Is it
stable?
Is the data published under
a well known license? Is it
stable?
Can we trust the author? Is the
source reliable?
Can we trust the author? Is the
source reliable?
Can we process the data in our intranet? Is it in
the cloud?
Can we process the data in our intranet? Is it in
the cloud?
Is the data up-to-date?Is the data up-to-date?
What is the economic value of using open data for us?
What is the economic value of using open data for us?
Can we get the data in a
format/standard which we can
process?
Can we get the data in a
format/standard which we can
process?
Are we allowed to mash the data with ours, can we afford the costs to that?
Are we allowed to mash the data with ours, can we afford the costs to that?
Does data quality
correspond to our criteria?
Does data quality
correspond to our criteria?
Are we allowed to mash the data
with ours?
Are we allowed to mash the data
with ours?
Legal issues, to begin with
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Is the data published under
a well known license? Is it
stable?
Is the data published under
a well known license? Is it
stable?
Hyperdata = Linked Data = Interoperable Data
Web of Data Hyperdata
Data on the Web (Open Data)
Web of Documents Hypertext
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Open Data can be linked!!!
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Can we trust the author? Is the
source reliable?
Can we trust the author? Is the
source reliable?
Can we get the data in a
format/standard which we can
process?
Can we get the data in a
format/standard which we can
process?
Why should data be linked?
Why should data be linked?
Recent Survey Results (June 2011)
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Do you think enterprises and other organizations can significantly benefit from using Linked Data?
Total: 158 people, online survey conducted by SWCBetween April and May 2011 - http://bit.ly/jfIVyY
Open Data? There are still „other“ urgent questions around
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How will customers find and
understand our offers better?
How will customers find and
understand our offers better?
How to improve communication
between our stakeholders?
How to improve communication
between our stakeholders?
How can employees find
relevant information efficiently?
How can employees find
relevant information efficiently?
How to integrate data?
How to integrate data?
How to extract information from
data?
How to extract information from
data?
How to publish (interoperable)
data on the web?
How to publish (interoperable)
data on the web?
Product Management/Marketing„Semantic Search“
Organisation Development„Collaboration“
Information Management„Mashups“
IT-Management„Interoperability“
Content Management„Annotation“
Media & Administration„Network effects“
Two perspectives on data standards & linked data
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There are reasons for technicians as well as for end-users to use linked data based on
standards
There are reasons for technicians as well as for end-users to use linked data based on
standards
For technicians: Why Linked Data? (1)
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Data integration realised on application level
For technicians: Why Linked Data? (2)
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Integration on data level
Application
Cost of data integration – two approaches
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Source: Price Waterhouse Coopers – Technology Forecast, Spring 2009
Can we afford to mash the data
with ours?
Can we afford to mash the data
with ours?
For end-users: Why Linked Data?
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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?
Better support for knowledge workers, decision makers & researchers
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What is the economic value of using open data for us?
What is the economic value of using open data for us?
• Select all proteins that are linked to a curated interaction from the literature and to inflammatory response
• Select all proteins that are linked to a curated molecular interaction, to inflammatory response and to a target of existing drug
• Select drugs related to asthma that are linked to a curated molecular interaction in the literature where the protein is known to cause inflammatory response
• Select all located in Y-chromosome human genes• Select all located in Y-chromosome, human genes with
known molecular interactions, which are analysed with 'Transfection’
• Documents, which describe relation between white blood cells, respiration disorders and tobacco smoke
• What are the exclusion criteria for studies that use as intervention drug treating respiratory diseases?
• Is there provenance for causal relations between COX-1, COX2, eicosanoids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)?
• http://linkedlifedata.com/sparql
More context information
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http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone/
What is the economic value of using open data for us?
What is the economic value of using open data for us?
DBpedia Live
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Is the data up-to-date?
Is the data up-to-date?
http://live.dbpedia.org/
Does data quality
correspond to our
criteria?
Does data quality
correspond to our
criteria?
Data curationvia „Crowd-Sourcing“
LiveExtraction
Data curationvia „Reasoning“
Data qualityimprovement
Linked Open Data? Example: BBC Music & Nature (1)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/
Linked Open Data? Example: BBC Music & Nature (2)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/0bbbc496-c7b5-4b3f-bb6d-bd312827d6e5.rdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Leopard.rdf
BBC Music & Nature: Focus & Benefit
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How will customers find and
understand our offers better?
How will customers find and
understand our offers better?
How to improve communication
between our stakeholders?
How to improve communication
between our stakeholders?
How can employees find
relevant information efficiently?
How can employees find
relevant information efficiently?
How to integrate data?
How to integrate data?
How to extract information from
data?
How to extract information from
data?
How to publish (interoperable)
data on the web?
How to publish (interoperable)
data on the web?
Self Service / Recommender
Vocabulary Management
Enterprise Search
Linked Data
Text Mining
(Linked) Open Data
Linked Open Data? Example: Reegle (1)
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http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search
http://data.reegle.info/
Linked Open Data? Example: Reegle (2)
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http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search
http://data.reegle.info/
Reegle: Focus & Benefit
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How will customers find and
understand our offers better?
How will customers find and
understand our offers better?
How to improve communication
between our stakeholders?
How to improve communication
between our stakeholders?
How can employees find
relevant information efficiently?
How can employees find
relevant information efficiently?
How to integrate data?
How to integrate data?
How to extract information from
data?
How to extract information from
data?
How to publish (interoperable)
data on the web?
How to publish (interoperable)
data on the web?
Product Management/Marketing„Semantic Search“
Organisation Development„Collaboration“
Information Management„Mashups“
IT-Management„Interoperability“
Content Management„Annotation“
Media & Administration„Network effects“
New businesses in a linked data value chain
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Source: Atif Latif et al
Conclusio: Open your data - the RDF way!
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• 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) solutions• Enterprises tend to standardize ways to process information, RDF could be a proper solution for that
Make use of open data principles internally and link it
I-Semantics!
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Infos & Contact
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Andreas BlumauerCEO, Semantic Web Company GmbH
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