Monika Solanki Aston University m.solanki@aston.ac.uk @nimonika

Open Knowledge Repositories: Enablers of Data Integration across Business Collaborations

Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter, But Open Data Makes Them Richer An open data strategy should be a top priority for any organization that uses the Web as a channel for delivering goods and services.

Gartner Inc., August 2012

Open data enables Data Integration

•  Transparency/visibility

•  Provenance

•  Consumer awareness

•  Compliance with regulations

•  Business opportunities

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Data integration adds value in unexpected ways

•  Encourages the development of mashups/tools that facilitate browsing and visualising of the integrated information

•  Reduces redundancy within and across organisational information infrastructures.

•  Helps deriving new knowledge from existing information by exploiting machine interpretation of data.

•  Facilitates the discovery of new datasets.

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Open Product Data: Use cases from FIspace

•  Meat Information Provenance

•  Import and export of consumer goods

•  Tailored Information for Consumers

Helping consumers to obtain better information on the goods they purchase, and producers to better control the flow of their goods to the consumer

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Future Internet Business Collaboration Networks in Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics

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Realising the vision: Technical perspective

•  Accessible data, available to use without restrictions on format or licensing.

•  Decentralised and scalable architecture.

•  Standardised and a variety of data structures/formats.

•  Shared domain knowledge.

•  Contextual identification of data elements that enable cross referencing across datasets.

•  APIs.