Open Data for Enterprises

Open Data for Enterprises

Why Linked Open Data meets Business Needs

Andreas BlumauerSemantic Web Company (SWC)

http://www.semantic-web.at

OKFO / OGD Austria http://www.opendata.at

ViennaMarch 22nd, 2012

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http://www.opendata.at/

http://www.semantic-web.at/

Short Bio

• Mag. Andreas Blumauer– Business Informatics, University of Vienna– Working on Semantic Technologies since 2001– Founder and CEO of Semantic Web Company

since 2004

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Business needs Spirit of the web

Open Data? What business people really

hear.


Open Data!Open Data! Why

should we use Open

Data?

Why should we use Open

Data?

Isn´t open data just

more data?

Isn´t open data just

more data?

Don´t we have enough data yet? We need

more knowledge!

Don´t we have enough data yet? We need

more knowledge!

Why should we open

our data?

Why should we open

our data?

„Open data“ as one-way-street?


Open data 1.0


GovsGovs AppMakersAppMakers

€

Smart apps

011010011111001

CitizensCitizens

011010011111001

€

wegwerfen.at


Open data 2.0


GovsGovs Media/Data broker

Media/Data broker

EnterprisesEnterprises

€

€

Smart appsSmart productsSmart systems

011010011111001 01101

0011111001

CitizensCustomersEmployees

CitizensCustomersEmployees

€

€

011010011111001

Govs, media & enterprises and their concerns about „open data“


1. Completeness2. Primacy3. Timeliness4. Non-discrimination 5. Ease of Physical and Electronic Access 6. Machine readability7. Use of Commonly Owned Standards8. Licensing

We need SLAs, trustworthy sources and

means for data integration

Core competencies

• provide immediate and uniform programmatic access to datasets

• ability to link data in a way that customers benefit from integrated views

• data maintenance • domain knowledge

• provide open standards •data visualisation/interaction

• cataloguing and indexing of data from different sources

• communicate and distribute (value of) the data

• enrichment of raw data with additional metadata

•assess the need for data


Media/Data broker

Media/Data broker

EnterprisesEnterprises

The critical point

• Open data• is obviously socio-politically relevant• helps to reduce administrative costs• is kind of an infrastructure which is

„invisible“ for the business community

• But to make it attractive for enterprises• open/external data obviously should be

integrated with internal databases


Three ways to make use of open data in Enterprises


1. Use open datafrom the web

3. Publish open dataon the web

2. Make use of open data principles internally

When Open Data is structured based on standards it can be

linked easily


Why should we use standards? We

have APIs and XML.

Why should we use standards? We

have APIs and XML.

Why should data be linked?

Why should data be linked?

Two perspectives on data standards & linked data


There are reasons for technicians as well as for end-users to use linked data based on

standards

There are reasons for technicians as well as for end-users to use linked data based on

standards

For technicians: Why Linked Data?


Data integration realised on application level

For technicians: Why Linked Data? The RDF way


Integration on data level

Application

For end-users: Why Linked Data?


In case you´re looking for a pizzeria in your neighbourhood

In case you want to know more about Einstein

Do you want to discover new relations and ask complex questions?

Survey results (preview) 2012


Open Data generates economic benefit especially when data can be linked in new ways.

Total: 113 people, online survey conducted by SWCMarch 2012 - https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012

NO: 1.8%

YES: 75.7%

MAYBE: 21.6%



When establishing a new data portal, should open semantic web standards be offered from the very beginning?


NO: 2.7%

YES: 82.9%

LATER: 14.4%



What are the most relevant options for enterprises to make use of open government data ?


Visualizations: 71.7%Apps: 73.9% BI: 63.0%

Survey results 2012


https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012

Open until March 30th, 2012

Publication: April 2012

https://bitly.com/umfrage-ogd2012

Open until March 30th, 2012

Publication: April 2012

BI & Open Data


Reegle‘s country energy profiles: http://www.reegle.info/countries

Data visualization


UK Research Funding Explorer: http://bis.clients.talis.com/

Semantic (Web) Search


Which airlines aresubsidiaries of Lufthansaand have their hub airport in Munich?

http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/

Conclusio: Open your data - the RDF way!


• Enterprises seek for solutions which can digest data from the web AND from the intranet to mash them

• Linked open data can help to extend existing Business Intelligence (BI) and enterprise search solutions

• Enterprises tend to standardize ways to process information, RDF is a proper solution for that

Make use of open data principles internally and link it

I-Semantics 2012


http://www.i-semantics.at 5th-7th of September 2012, Graz

SmartWeb.Vienna


23th-24th may 2012, Viennahttp://www.smartwebvienna.at/

Infos & Contact

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Mag. Andreas BlumauerCEO, Semantic Web Company GmbH

Mariahilfer Straße 70A-1070 Wien, Austria

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Open Data for Enterprises