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data incubator

by Ian Davis http://iandavis.com/

On a Mission to Grow the Web of Data

On a Mission to Grow the Web of Data

There is still not enough data

Today the effort of publishing Linked Data far exceeds the payback for data owners

We need to reach a critical mass of Linked Data to make publishing sustainable and rewarding

The obstacles to publishing:

Why shoud I do it?What should my data look like?What tools should I use?How do I know I'm doing it right?

Data Incubator seeks to organise community expertise to remove these obstacles

Infrastructure

Website and use of dataincubator.org subdomains

Google code project and mailing list

Talis Platform for hosting conversions

What else?

Community Expertise

Modelling data

Creating schemas

Scraping and conversion scripts

Identifying cross linking opportunities

Principles

dataincubator.org is a temporary host for converted data. The data needs to end up on the original owner's site

All code, schemas and data to be freely available (public domain if possible)

Use the same tools as the data owner

Challenges

What datasets are most valuable?

How to convince data owners to adopt the work into their processes?

How to educate about licensing?

How to improve communication and collaboration?

Challenges Contd.

How to best demonstrate value of Linked Data back to original data owners?

How to recruit more volunteers?

This presentation is entirely in the public domain