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29th October 2009

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Our MissionBecoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.

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The Data Tank

Our MissionBecoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.

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The Data Tank

Our MissionBecoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.

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Expensive – Difficult – Boring

Hans Rosling at TED (movie)

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Expensive – Difficult – Boring

Bret Taylor(Founder atFriendFeed)

“I think all of these barriers to dataare holding back innovation at ascale that few people realize.”

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Expensive – Difficult – Boring

Tim Berners-Lee(Inventor of the

World WideWeb)

“Sure, make a beautiful website, butfirst, give us – all of us – theunadulterated data. We have to askfor raw data now.”

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Build a community around your dataSmall Case Study: NMBS

Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo

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Mac OS X widget

“ Werkteaanvankelijk, tot

hun dienstregelingwerd uitgebreid

naar bus- en anderediensten, waardoor

ze nooit isgereleased. . . ”

Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo

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Mac OS X widget

Never released

Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo

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Mac OS X widget

Never released

Dockyard Realtime

“ De achterzijdevan RealTime is netnoodgedwongen een

beetje gewijzigdomdat Infrabel eennieuwe versie van

RailTime heeftgelanceerd. ”

i-Speech Traininfo

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Mac OS X widget

Never released

Dockyard Realtime

Unreliable

i-Speech Traininfo

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Build a community around your dataSmall Case Study: NMBS

Mac OS X widget

Never released

Dockyard Realtime

Unreliable

i-Speech Traininfo

www.railtime.be/website/

DisclaimerNL.htm

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Mac OS X widget

Never released

Dockyard Realtime

Unreliable

i-Speech Traininfo

Legal issues

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Chicken-or-the-Egg

The Data Tank is bringing together hungry data consumers. . .

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Chicken-or-the-Egg

. . . to convince data owners into publishing.

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There is a community for your data out there!

NMBS

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There is a community for your data out there!

De Lijn

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Market SizePublic Sector: HUGE!

Art. 7. §1. De instanties die authentiekegegevensbronnen beheren overeenkomstigartikel 4, §1, of de entiteiten, vermeld in artikel4, §3, stellen de metagegevens van deauthentieke gegevensbronnen kosteloos enpubliekelijk open [. . . ]. — Vlaams decreetvan 18 juli 2008

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Market SizePrivate Sector: HUGE!

“Gartner Says Companies Should ImplementInformation Access Technologies, RatherThan Buying More Storage, to Man age OldCorporate Data.” — 7th August 2008

“Gartner Recommends Key Cost-CuttingTactics in Data Management andIntegration.” — 10th March 2008

“Gartner Says Organisations Must EstablishData Stewardship Roles to Improve DataQuality.” — 22nd January 2008

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Business ModelDirect Revenue Model

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Business ModelWhat’s in it for the Data Owner?

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Business ModelWhat’s in it for the Data Consumer?

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Business ModelWhat’s in it for the Client?

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Underlying Magic

ModernTechnologies

Ruby on Rails

Amazon Web Services

Rising Trends

Cloud Computing

Web Database

Open Source

Free Software

Affero GPL license

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Competition

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-Source:Users Authoritative

Content:Niche Broad

Consumption:Hard Easy

DBPediaFreeBase

CrunchBase data.gov

SuikermuseumVTi

Google Maps data.gov

data.gov

DBpediaFreeBase Google Maps

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TeamTom Coen

I Engineering PhD from KULeuven

I Co-founded Dsquare NC (spin-off company of KULeuvenfocused on data mining in process industry)

I Started INDUCT (control for machinery)

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TeamBart Van Loon

I Master in ComputerScience from KULeuven

I Co-founded Villa Vespa(beautifully renovatedVespas)

I Co-founder and ManagingPartner of Zeropoint.IT(managed IT outsourcingto Pakistan)

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Let’s connect:

Thank you!

I Bart Van Loon

I (+32) 472/94.14.34

I bart@thedatatank.com

I Tom Coen

I (+32) 497/26.20.63

I tom@thedatatank.com

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