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Thinking about Open Data, with a little help from the Data Hub

Thinking about Open Data, with a little help from the Data Hub

By Paul Miller on August 1, 2012

Continuing to explore the adoption of explicit Open Data licenses, I’ve been having a trawl through some of the data in the Open Knowledge Foundation‘s Data Hub. I’m disappointed – but not surprised – by the extent to which widely applicable Open Data licenses are (not!) being applied. For those who are impatient or already aware of the background, […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged adria mercader, ckan, Creative Commons, data hub, Leigh Dodds, okfn, Open content, open data, Open Data Commons, open data licence, open data license, Open Knowledge Foundation

Survey: How open is your data?

Survey: How open is your data?

By Paul Miller on July 11, 2012

Back in 2006 as we rolled out the first public draft of the Talis Community Licence, the world of data licensing seemed a simple place. Today, the Open Knowledge Foundation‘s Data Hub contains 3,888 data sets, many of which are explicitly licensed with respect to the Open Definition. But many are still not explicitly licensed. Over at […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged big data, cc0, Creative Commons, data licensing, data markets, data.gov.uk, database right, Linked Data, open data, Open Data Commons, open knowledge definition, Open Knowledge Foundation, Public Domain, Talis

Thinking about Data Gravity

Thinking about Data Gravity

By Paul Miller on July 2, 2012

Dave McCrory introduced his idea of Data Gravity with a blog post back in 2010. The core idea was — and is — interesting, and got some traction from sites like ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet and GigaOM. More recently, Data Gravity featured in this year’s EMC World keynote.  But beyond the observation that large or valuable agglomerations of data […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, data gravity, data markets, data physics, datagravity, dave mccrory, Linked Data, open data

Open is good – but encouragement better than mandate

Open is good – but encouragement better than mandate

By Paul Miller on February 6, 2012

Image via Wikipedia Openness is undeniably cool right now, at least if you move in the slightly odd circles that I do. Openly available scientific papers are disrupting the world of scholarly publishing (which may not be all good, but that’s a post for another day). Openly available university courses are finally beginning to work […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged 1OdataLicenseEU, Andrés Nin, Creative Commons, epsi, epsiplatform, Neelie Kroes, open data, Open Data Commons, open licence, open license, psi directive

A conversation with Richard Wallis, an experiment, and a survey

A conversation with Richard Wallis, an experiment, and a survey

By Paul Miller on February 3, 2012

Richard Wallis left Talis (my former employer) last month, and has set up as a consultant at DataLiberate. In this short podcast, Richard shares some of his thoughts on data, semantics, and ‘the power of the link.’ Our conversation is also an excuse for an experiment. I have been producing audio-only podcasts here and elsewhere […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Administrivia, IMovie, Linked Data, open data, Podcast, Richard Wallis, semantic web, skype, SurveyMonkey, Talis Group, video

CloudCamp London: the Big Data Special

CloudCamp London: the Big Data Special

By Paul Miller on January 25, 2012

Image by Kevin Krejci via Flickr The CloudCamp unconference returned to London for the 14th time this evening, regaling a capacity crowd in the Crypt below Clerkenwell’s St James Church with several hours of discussion and debate on the somewhat elusive topic of ‘Big Data’. Rather rough notes of the proceedings follow, after the break. […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged big data, cloud computing, cloudcamp, Linked Data, open data

Data Market Chat: Tyler Bell discusses Factual

Data Market Chat: Tyler Bell discusses Factual

By Paul Miller on January 20, 2012

Having received some $27 million in investment from big names like Andreessen Horowitz, LA-based Factual is one of the better funded examples of a ‘data marketplace.’ But Tyler Bell, the company’s Director of Product, is not sure that Factual necessarily fits most people’s perception of what a data marketplace should be. Focussed — for now — upon […]

Posted in Business | Tagged data market, data market chat, data marketplace, data markets, Factual, geospatial data, location data, open data, Podcast, Tyler Bell

Data Market Chat: the podcasts are a-coming…

Data Market Chat: the podcasts are a-coming…

By Paul Miller on January 13, 2012

Image via Wikipedia To follow up on my Data Markets post earlier this week, I’m now scheduling a series of podcasts in which the conversation can — and will — delve an awful lot deeper. I’ve contacted representatives from most of the obvious data markets, some startups working in closely related areas, and several of the key […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged AggData, big data, chris hathaway, data market chat, data markets, DataMarket, Factual, Hjalmar Gislason, open data, Podcast, podcasting, Tyler Bell

Top Level Domain for data answers the wrong question

Top Level Domain for data answers the wrong question

By Paul Miller on January 11, 2012

Image of Stephen Wolfram via Wikipedia British-born computer scientist Stephen Wolfram sees ongoing efforts to extend the Internet’s top-level domains (TLDs) beyond the familiar .com, .org, .uk etc as an opportunity to raise the profile of machine-readable data. In a blog post published yesterday, he argues that a new .data domain would increase “exposure of data on […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged big data, cloud computing, content negotiation, Cybersquatting, data, data publishing, data science, Data sharing, Data Web, domain name, Domain Name System, Enterprise Computing, ICANN, Linked Data, open data, Open University, semantic web, Southampton University, Stephen Wolfram, TLD, Top-level domain, web 3.0, Wolfram Research

Nurturing the market for Data Markets

Nurturing the market for Data Markets

By Paul Miller on January 10, 2012

From Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace to the eponymous DataMarket, or InfoChimps, Factual, and Kasabi, there’s resurgent interest in the venerable business of collecting, curating, and commercialising data created by others. But despite investment and innovation, there isn’t yet the matching evidence for much use or — even — interest amongst prospective customers. In principle, at least, these data markets […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, data market, data marketplace, data store, DataMarket, European Commission, Experian, Factual, Gapminder, IBM, infochimps, kasabi, microsoft, open data, Redmonk, windows azure

What is Really Holding the Cloud Back?

What is Really Holding the Cloud Back?

By Raejeanne Skillern on July 18, 2011

As I was listening to speakers at Structure Conference this year, something caught my attention and changed my thinking on cloud priorities. When IT decision makers are asked to rate the top challenges for cloud adoption, security always rises to the top. Security, security, security. At Structure, I heard something slightly different from Microsoft’s Satya […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Your POV | Tagged cloud computing, CloudComputing, intel, interoperability, open cloud, open data, open data center alliance, opennes, sctructure conference, Security | 6 Responses

June is San Francisco month

June is San Francisco month

By Paul Miller on May 9, 2011

For real-world applications of Linked Data and the Semantic Web, the long-running Semantic Technology Conference is hard to beat. For getting a real handle on the Cloud Computing landscape, GigaOM‘s Structure Conference is also a leading light. Working across both areas as I do, these events tend to figure prominently in my calendar for the […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged big data, cloud computing, GigaOM, Linked Data, Om Malik, open data, San Francisco, Semantic Technology Conference, semantic web, semanticconf, SemTech, Structure 2011, structureconf, web 3.0

Strata Conference 2010: Building and Pricing the Data Marketplace

Strata Conference 2010: Building and Pricing the Data Marketplace

By Paul Miller on February 3, 2011

Pete Soderling of Stratus Security and Pete Forde of BuzzData led a session on Building and Pricing the Data Marketplace. Rough notes follow. What’s the Data supply business now? What’s a Data Marketplace? How do we get from here to there? Today, data is a $100Bn global market. But what is data, and why should […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged big data, BuzzData, data marketplace, DataMarket, infochimps, kasabi, open data, Pete Forde, Pete Soderling | 1 Response

Strata Conference 2011, Day 2 Keynotes

Strata Conference 2011, Day 2 Keynotes

By Paul Miller on February 2, 2011

Day 2, and after yesterday’s tutorials the conference is really getting going. Here’s a stream of consciousness from the morning’s keynotes at this sold-out event. Conference chair Edd Dumbill is introducing things, talking about William Smith‘s nineteenth century map of geological strata in the British Isles, the rise of industrialisation, and the move to towns. […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, big data, bigdata, cloud computing, edd dumbill, Hilary Mason, Mark Madsen, open data, Thomson Reuters, werner vogels, Windows Azure DataMarket, Zane Adam

Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom reckons competitions ‘an amazing way to do data science’

Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom reckons competitions ‘an amazing way to do data science’

By Paul Miller on February 1, 2011

Image via CrunchBase I had coffee this morning with Anthony Goldbloom, Australian CEO of Kaggle. The company describes itself as “a platform for data prediction competitions,” and seeks to solve big problems by hosting competitions that match data owners with a problem to (professional and amateur) data scientists with the time, creativity and skills to […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged anthony goldbloom, Heritage Health Prize, hpnhealthprize, kaggle, open data, strataconf

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