maximizing benefit of open data through linked data services
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Short talk for Inside Government event "Future of Open Data in the Public Sector"TRANSCRIPT
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Maximizing benefit of Open Data through Linked Data Services
Dave Reynolds@der42
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Who are we?
Help organizations exploit Linked Data through:– Consultancy– Training – Data hosting– Applications development– Software tools
Customers include:Land Registry
Cabinet Office
Ordnance Survey
Environment Agency
The National Archive
BBC
DEFRA
MetOffice
Bristol CC
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Many reasons to open data
Transparency & Open Data
Economic Growth
Social Growth
Public Sector ProductivityChoice
Public Sector Outcomes
Accountability
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant’
Publishing financial data, contracts, and Job
holders above SCS1
Raw material for enterprise to build with
Life Sciences – the NHS is global data centre for
innovation
Helping people help themselves
By accessing personal health records online.
Driving up quality and improving outcomes
Publishing comparable data on
GP outcomes
Identifying best practice and waste How can I
deliver a more efficient court
service
Supporting informed choicesHelping parents identify the best school for their
children in a locality
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Just publishing the data doesn’t, of itself,deliver any of these
You need people to:– find your data– understand it– do something with it
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So make sure you get those benefits
maximizing the reach of your data– intrinsic value of the data– direct and indirect support for use• training and documentation• demonstrators• competitions, hackdays, recognition
– get data to your users• in a form that works for them• with context and connections to make it useful
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Which users?
Data scientist?
Developers?
Citizens?
Partner public bodies?
Field workers?
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each of these users have different requirements for how they
access the data and the support they need
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Beyond the data dump ...
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What’s wrong with data dumps?
Good things:– low cost to publish– universal, wide range of tools– power users will always want this
Issues:– what if I only want a small part?– what do the entries means?– how do I keep it up to date? change v.s. correction– how do the terms here relate to my other data?
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Focus of talk
set of open web standards for data publication– supports data services, not just bulk down loads– enables datasets to be connected, contextualized
Linked Data
illustrate via case study of environmental data
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Bathing water quality
Press intereststart of season
20-22 samples in 22weeks
annual reportNovember
bathing season
15th May
30th Sept
December
what informationis relevant to the publicabout beaches
what we do
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
Arup
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
Arup
Local authorities
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
Arup
Local authorities
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
Arup
Local authorities
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
Bathing water
Sampling point
Environment Agency
Arup
Local authorities Marine conservation society
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
profiles Bathing water
Sampling point
Profile
Environment Agency
Arup
Local authorities Marine conservation society
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Linked data platform
Data platform
SELECT DISTINCT * WHERE { bwq-iss:latest qb:observation ?o .}
quality assessment
dumps
query
web API
Operational data
profiles
pollution predictions
Bathing water
Sampling point
Profile
Environment Agency
Arup
Local authorities Marine conservation society
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Adopting this approach delivered ...
• very broad reach for data– public, third sector, local government, beach operators
• simplified operations– publish once, use many– replaced separate publishing chains by simple apps
• integrated view over the data– measurements, assessments, profiles, predictions
• incrementally extend over time– series of small steps, just pour more data into the platform
But where are the links?
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Links are everywhere
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Links are everywhere
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
NorthSomerset
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
NorthSomerset
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
NorthSomerset
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
NorthSomerset
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
NorthSomerset
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
Bathing water regulations
NorthSomerset
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Links are everywhere
Bathing waterClevedon Beach
Sampling point
Profile
Sample Assessment
Higher
sampleclassification
falseabnormalweather
source
Bathing water regulations
NorthSomerset
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Essence of Linked Data approach ...
• break information into set of resources– bathing waters, sampling points, individual assessments
• give each a web address, URL– so you can reference it and fetch information on it
• this enables you to – connect data, across organizational boundaries– incrementally extend data – always access the latest version– put information in context so it can be understood
• based on open (W3C) standards– data representation, vocabularies, query
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Messages
Maximize the reach an impact of your data:– provide multiple delivery channels • publish once, use many
– link to other data sets • context and value
– provide reference data that others can link to• eco-system of connected data
– consider use of Linked Data open standards as a means to achieve all this
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