Swift 20slides Ned 2010

swift is

1. data gathering engine (aggregator)2. data structuring tool (tagger)3. most importantly, an API for data

who swift isA product of several like-minded

nonprofit software projects.

Mesh4x Crowdsourced Crisis data Media Analytics

how?Underneath Swift is really just peopleworking together to gather as much

structured data as possible.

pull a stool up to the data assembly lineand get to work

Swift is the index cards and the highlighters.

Swift gives you blanks to fill in.

twitch games

witnessingis a fundamental to understanding the world

And yet, all of the eyewitness data is inseparable from the noise, where it will remain

for hours, or perhaps never be utilized.

Data is lost like waste heat.

We need new listening tools.

Output: API

Swift is a tool for creating structured data.

The resulting database is open, with distributed storage and standards-based portability, relying

on:

ICALFOAF

Dublin Core

InsteddTag analysis for disease prediction

evolve

The Canadians made something like this.It’s Java, closed, expensive, and limited to health data.

Europe Media Monitor does analytics like we hope to.

Newsrooms are starting to figure this out.Hashtag leadership creates a grassroots AP wire.

good with data?

now you can help

designed for speed

How do you signal to your community?(how do you post to a bulletin board?)

structured publishing

you can’t just share your SQL. Making data portable means publishing it

in structured databases. Take it to Freebase, GeoCommons, DBpedia, MusicBrainz

Dont just make it “open,” make it semantic and publish

it.