Linking Open Data in Ireland’s Digital Ocean

Adam LeadbetterTeam Leader for Data Management, Marine Institute

18th May 2016

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“If HTML and the World Wide Web made all the online documents look like one

huge book, the Semantic Web will make all the data in the world look like one

huge database.”

Sir Tim Berners-LeeWeaving The Web

1999

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Unique identifier - URL

When theidentifier islooked upsomethingstandardhappens

Links to othersites which may

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http://5stardata.info/images/5-star-steps.png

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https://github.com/adamml/LinkedOceanDataCloud

Data Suppliers• Public bodies• Researchers• Public• Industry (compliance)

Digital Ocean Platform• Data management• Integration• Publishing services

Digital Ocean Services• Data services• Analytics• Information delivery

End Users• Public services• Research• Commercial innovation

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http://www.opengovintelligence.eu/

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http://www.digitalocean.ie/Dashboard/Galway

“There are emergent technologies throughout the fields around oceanography

which we will incorporate into oceanography, and through that

convergence we will make oceanography into something

even more magical”John Delaney

University of WashingtonMission Blue Voyage TED Talk

April 2010

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Thank you

adam.leadbetter@marine.ie