Download - Open Data and Query Services: Introduction
Pistoia Alliance invites you to an online information session
Data & Query ServicesMonday, June 6, 2011
www.pistoiaalliance.org| Lowering Barriers to R&D Innovation
with presentations by
7:30am – 9:00am PST, 10:30am – 12:00pm EST, 3:30pm - 5:00pm UK
Who’s here?
Pistoia Mission
Lower the barriers to innovation by improving interoperability of R&D business processes through pre-
competitive collaboration
www.pistoiaalliance.org
Agenda – Data & Query Services
• Introduction– Pierre Menard, Pistoia Technical Committee Chair
• RDF + SPARQL– Bob Stanley, CEO at IO Informatics– Eric Prud’hommeaux, W3C HCLSIG
• OData– Pablo Castro, Principal Architect at Microsoft
• Q&A• Wrap-up
Background – Data as a Service
• Why– Authoritative/master data sources– Unlock data silos to leverage existing information assets– Integrate with reporting, analytics, and collaboration
tools to improve decision making– Self-service data mashups
• Design criteria– Neutral technology– Choice of API – Choice of data format– Choice of query language– Choice of …– Did you know standards exist?
Benefits of aligning to standards
• Functionality– Generic mechanisms for representing data and relationships
between data– Query semantics for searching, filtering, sorting your data– Less code you have to write, support and maintain.
• Good design– API stability– Efficiency– Extensibility– Backward/forward compatibility– API versioning– Paging– Don’t reinvent the wheel!
Benefits of aligning to standards
• Inter-operability– Native support in applications means little or no integration
work
• Supportability– Online community available to you– Easier to find support and maintenance staff
• Web friendly– Supports selective partner integration– Aligns well to modern computing approaches such as cloud
and mobile computing– RESTful
• Resource centric approach aligns very well to data services• Easier for your end users• Benefits from piggybacking off HTTP (caching, security, etc)
Integrated capability
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It’s not just about technology
Pistoia wants to gauge your interest• Should Pistoia align to these
standards in Pistoia portfolio projects?
• Will you align to these standards in your projects/products?
• Are you interested in future informational sessions like this one?
Today’s Speakers
Bob Stanley, CEO of IO InformaticsEric Prud’hommeaux, W3C HCLSIG
Pablo Castro, OData Inventor and Principal Architect at Microsoft