Linked Open Data

How structured data

improves time-to-deliver &

lowers technical debt

Linked Open Data

Helps machines reach outside one business unit into another with minimal infrastructure.

Software v. Data

Linked Open Data: People

<a> tag

https://www.kbresearch.com/concept-files/information-database1.png

Linked Open Data: Machines

Understanding connections between data units

by using globally unique identifiers (URIs) to identify "things"

formatted in a standard model

for structured data (RDF)

Globally Unique Identifiers

"Mak Saito"

is understood as:

http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234

"NSF Award # 1233261"

is understood as:

http://data.whoi.edu/id/award/nsf/oce/1233261

DEMOS

Connections & Structure

http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234

http://data.whoi.edu/id/award/nsf/oce/1233261

http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/award/isPrincipalInvestigatorOf

subject

predicate

object

<subject> <predicate> <object> .

<subject> <predicate> <object> .

<subject> <predicate> <object> .

Structured Data Examples

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/person/fullName>

      object:  "Mak Saito"^^xsd:string

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/department/MCG>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/department/hasEmployee>

      object:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/award/isPrincipalInvestigatorOf>

      object:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/award/nsf/oce/1233261>

Structured Data Examples

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/person/fullName>

      object:  "Mak Saito"^^xsd:string

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/department/MCG>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/department/hasEmployee>

      object:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

    subject:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/person/1234>

predicate:  <http://schema.whoi.edu/1.0/award/isPrincipalInvestigatorOf>

      object:  <http://data.whoi.edu/id/award/nsf/oce/1233261>

Lowering Technical Debt

2

2

2

Software API Impl: 6

Software Libraries: 3

Linked Data Impls: 3

Linked Data Schemas: 1

1

Final Thoughts

"I have a pitch meeting in a week. Can you build me a website that has all the articles, video, images related to my last three grants?"

What are the data use cases we may encounter?

"Discovery Channel called, they want all the video we have on whale activity near Georges Bank where Michael Moore's whale monitoring instrumentation was used."

'14 NY Times Innovation Report

"The Times is woefully behind in its tagging and structured data practices….Structured data problems prohibit the Times from automating the sale of photos and keep Times stories from doing as well in search rankings as they should." (p. 41)

“Just adding structured data, for example, immediately increased traffic to our recipes from search engines by 52 percent.” (p.44)

They spent “a huge sum to retroactively structure the data.” Structured data problems prohibit the Times from automating the sale of photos and keep Times stories from doing as well in search rankings as they should. (p. 41)

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