Linkatu: Semantic technologies in life sciences and health care environments Southern Tech Tour, Bilbao 2011

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1.5M publications/year

1 million authors

million readers at >10,000 institutions 15

downloads per year 1.5B

20billion€

too much to read

too expensive

too difficult to find

what is a “data market place" ?

Service that make it easy to find data from a range of secondary data sources, then consume the data in a usable and unified format. Several of these services are trying to create marketplaces for data, envisioning that data providers can offer their data sets for sale to data seekers

what is a "platform" ?

a place where we encourage... support... enable... our communities

"Data marketplace" Infochimps raises

$1.2M to build out its data offerings

Factual, a startup that claims to host hundreds

of thousands of data sets, has raised $25

million in its first round of institutional funding.

Mendeley Snags $2 Million In Early-Stage

Funding For Research Paper Management Tool

Sermo Closes 26.7 Million in Funding to

Evolve Online Community for Physicians

PatientsLikeMe take in $8M funding

Content providers have complete control over data, terms of use, and price of published datasets

Public domain data is free for all customers

Customers can purchase premium datasets by # of transactions or monthly subscriptions

Customers have access to Trial Usage and data visualizations to help make better data purchase decisions

Linkatu and content providers will share revenue for all data sales

Revenue from high value services beyond brokerage: report galleries, data cleansing as a service, and killer apps

50 million sequences obtained by 2015

The pharma industry loses

$4.2 billion per year due to

drug trial delays

$1,000 genome; $100,000 analysis?

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