[open-development] FW: [LinkInfo4Dev] Method for mapping open development data

Mon May 16 14:06:44 UTC 2011

Folks,

I¹m fowarding this interesting thread from the Lined Data list for
information.

Tariq

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From: <tim.g.davies at gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 00:40:57 +0000 (GMT)
To: LinkInfo4Dev <LinkInfo4Dev at dgroups.org>
Subject: [LinkInfo4Dev] Method for mapping open development data

Hello Caitlin,

Good idea. I'll add that to the things we try and find out in the mapping.

You raise an interesting point when it comes to the emerging market around
data. There certainly seem to be a few emerging business models:

1) The Data Publishers
Including platforms like Kasabi; PublishMyData; DataMarket and Socrata who
either offer platforms for publishing data and making it easy for end-users
to access (the later two), or who focus on providing services to help people
model linked data. Either way, the data owner pays to publish.

It raises interesting questions about how far the modelling decisions around
linked development data will get 'outsourced' to data experts, and how far
the sector will develop it's own linked data expertise and experience - and
whether the platforms that develop will through competition become more
affordable over time;

2) Data Marketplaces
DataMarket, Socrata, Windows Azure Data Marketplace and Kasabi are all
offering, or exploring offering, a mix of free data and paid-to-access data.
As you say, some organisations could see this as a way to finance activities
- and that could act against arguments for opening up access to data.

I wonder what datasets development actors might have which they would see as
potential revenue streams if sold? That might be a question we can ask in
mapping a sample of datasets.

I don't think the potential for market forces to come into the open data
space was something we explored in November, though we did identify that you
can have open data that's not linked data; and linked data which is not open
data. 

All the best

Tim

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Caitlin Bentley <caitlin.bentley at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Tim and everyone,
> 
> I had a look at the method, I would add to the list under 'Discovering data
> sets' -> the purpose of data set (if made explicit) i.e. not only what are
> they publishing but why they are publishing it.
> 
> In unrelated news, I went to the London semantic web meetup on Tuesday
> (http://www.meetup.com/LondonSWGroup/  or
> http://www.lotico.com/index.php/Lotico), where Tallis presented their new tool
> called Kasabi. It's an online data store that offers easy publishing and
> consuming of data. A number of APIs are automatically associated with
> published data sets as well, and it's also easy to create your own API. In the
> future they hope to be able to offer services to help transform data into RDF.
> They are going with a market model, so whoever publishes their data in the
> Kasabi marketplace has the option of charging for its use, and they are
> exploring various schemes, so it would be possible to decide who has to pay
> and how much. During the discussion, a comparison was made between Kasabi and
> Freebase (apart from the detail that Freebase is not only RDF data), and most
> people felt that the market based model would offer an incentive to keep data
> sets updated and such, and so preferred the marketplace model. I was perhaps
> less interested in this business oriented discussion, but I couldn't help but
> consider that publishing data in this way could offer another way for
> organisations to finance activities.
> 
> Any thoughts? I was not at the linked data meeting in November, I was
> wondering if you had had a discussion about open linked data VS linked data?
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Caitlin 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:37 PM,  <tim.g.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> For the Technical Linked Data working paper we're out of last years workshop
>> we're hoping to include some additional mapping of available open data in the
>> development sector.
>> 
>> Mapping all the data that's available is of course, impossible, and finding
>> the right focus and scope for a small mapping exercise is also a challenge.
>> 
>> So - my first shot at describing a scope and method for a mapping exercise is
>> available at: 
>> http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/odi/2011/05/mapping-open-development-
>> data-a-draft-method-micro-study/
>> 
>> All comments and feedback welcome. I'll be revising the draft and getting the
>> mapping underway towards the end of next week...
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> P.S. If you've not been following if then you might be interested in the
>> Tweets from yesterday and today's Open Data for Development Camp organised by
>> Rolf Kleef and co in Amsterdam. Tweets at
>> http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23oddc and more details at
>> http://http://openforchange.info
>> 
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