Flowing Data through the Talis Platform
Leigh Dodds
Platform Programme Manager, Talis
11th November 2008
SWIG-UK Event
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A (Very Brief) Web History
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Getting Stuff Online
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LinkingInitially manual, with increasing richness
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Search EnginesAutomated Linking
Search Engine Evolution Value-added Features
Community Driven Customisation
The Same Process on the Semantic Web…
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Semantic Web Search…should be for machines
Semantic Web Searchsome examples
Semantic Search Engine Evolution Value-added Features?
Community Driven Customisation?
VocabularyNormalization
CommunityCompiled Indexes
Type Searching
User DrivenBehaviour
Data Trends
Semantic Search Engine Evolution
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Forms of Data UsageA metaphor…
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StreamsData flowing from a person or application
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PoolsAggregated data. Deeper
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ReservoirBuilt for a purpose. Serve a community
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Emergent PropertiesMore is different
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Exploiting the AggregateDatabase of Intentions. Data analysis
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Economies of ScaleQuality of Service. Redundancy
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Flowing InRESTful Data Management
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Flowing OutSnapshots. SPARQL. OAI-PMH. RSS
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Augmentation Enrichment by Trawling for Data
Store Groups Data Composition. Virtual Reservoirs
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