The DataTank wants to become the worlds largest trusted source on public and published data.

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29th October 2009
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Our Mission
Becoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.
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The Data Tank
Our Mission
Becoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.
The Data Tank

4. The Data Tank Problem Opportunities Solution Market Size Business Model Technology Competition Team Contact
The Data Tank
Our Mission
Becoming 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 at
FriendFeed)
“I think all of these barriers to data
are holding back innovation at a
scale that few people realize.”
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Expensive – Difficult – Boring
Tim Berners-Lee
(Inventor of the
World Wide
Web)
“Sure, make a beautiful website, but
first, give us – all of us – the
unadulterated data. We have to ask
for raw data now.”
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget
“ Werkte
aanvankelijk, tot
hun dienstregeling
werd uitgebreid
naar bus- en andere
diensten, waardoor
ze nooit is
gereleased. . . ”
Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget
Never released
Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget
Never released
Dockyard Realtime
“ De achterzijde
van RealTime is net
noodgedwongen een
beetje gewijzigd
omdat Infrabel een
nieuwe versie van
RailTime heeft
gelanceerd. ”
i-Speech Traininfo
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget
Never released
Dockyard Realtime
Unreliable
i-Speech Traininfo
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Build a community around your data
Small 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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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
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 Size
Public Sector: HUGE!
Art. 7. §1. De instanties die authentieke
gegevensbronnen beheren overeenkomstig
artikel 4, §1, of de entiteiten, vermeld in artikel
4, §3, stellen de metagegevens van de
authentieke gegevensbronnen kosteloos en
publiekelijk open [. . . ]. — Vlaams decreet
van 18 juli 2008
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Market Size
Private Sector: HUGE!
“Gartner Says Companies Should Implement
Information Access Technologies, Rather
Than Buying More Storage, to Man age Old
Corporate Data.” — 7th August 2008
“Gartner Recommends Key Cost-Cutting
Tactics in Data Management and
Integration.” — 10th March 2008
“Gartner Says Organisations Must Establish
Data Stewardship Roles to Improve Data
Quality.” — 22nd January 2008
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Business Model
Direct Revenue Model
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Business Model
What’s in it for the Data Owner?
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Business Model
What’s in it for the Data Consumer?
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24. Business Model
What’s in it for the Client?

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Underlying Magic
Modern
Technologies
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
DBPedia
FreeBase
CrunchBase data.gov
Suikermuseum
VTi
Google Maps data.gov
data.gov
DBpedia
FreeBase Google Maps
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Team
Tom Coen
I Engineering PhD from KULeuven
I Co-founded Dsquare NC (spin-off company of KULeuven
focused on data mining in process industry)
I Started INDUCT (control for machinery)
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Team
Bart Van Loon
I Master in Computer
Science from KULeuven
I Co-founded Villa Vespa
(beautifully renovated
Vespas)
I Co-founder and Managing
Partner of Zeropoint.IT
(managed IT outsourcing
to 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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