Paul Miller of The Cloud of Data presented on exploiting data in the cloud. Some key points included: - Moving infrastructure to the cloud is common, but moving data is less so despite opportunities for growth. - The cloud offers different service models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). - The Semantic Web, envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee, aims to make data on the web more connected and usable by both humans and machines. Linked open data principles can help realize this vision. - Most data is actually "context" rather than "core" but is treated as confidential;

1. Exploiting Data in the Cloud
Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
paul.miller@cloudofdata.com
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3. Getting Started
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4. moving infrastructure to Cloud
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5. ...but why not data?
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6. ‘Security’ - reason or excuse?
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7. re-imagining the Semantic Web
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8. re-imagining the Semantic Web
“Stop hugging
your data”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
http://tr.im/timblvideo
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9. eg Thomson Reuters
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10. eg UK Gov.
but first…
- recap Cloud
- introduce ‘Semantic’
or Data Web
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11. take a step back
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12. take a step back
The Cloud
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User perspective
‘Cloud’ means- device/location independence

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User perspective
‘Cloud’ means- device/location independence

15. Traditional 3 layer model - there are plenty of others!
all ‘Cloud’… but DIFFERENT!
Software/Application [as a Service]
(SaaS)
Platform [as a Service]
(PaaS)
Infrastructure [as a Service]
(IaaS)
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16. outsource raw infrastructure - avoid
significant CapEx
scale to meet demand - Eli Lilly, payroll
SaaS - IBM Blue Cloud
hybrid
PaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
computers (Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid...)
storage (Amazon S3, MobileMe, Google Drive...)
Elasticity (Rightscale…)
Bandwidth (Limelight, Amazon CloudFront…)
Electricity
Cooling
etc.
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17. ‘does heavy lifting’
concentrate on your app’s USP
SaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Salesforce force.com
Apprenda SaaSGrid
Google App Engine
Microsoft Azure
Appistry
Talis Platform
IaaS
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18. light weight applications, delivered over Web
mostly low-end disruptors for now...
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Apps, Zoho
Acrobat.com, iWork.com
Kashflow, Sage Live
WordPress.com
MobileMe
Salesforce.com
PaaS
IaaS
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19. data are at every level of the stack…
becomes more important as the
stack commoditises
SaaS
Data
PaaS
IaaS
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20. Rode Cloud meme in 2008.
Listen to our podcast.
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21. Recent perspective on opportunity
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22. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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23. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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24. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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25. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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26. Gradual transition to the
Cloud saves money
Includes Private Clouds
But data in ghettos
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27. TimBL’s TED talk reminded me of this... Image © 2008, David Simonds
March 2008 Economist
Remarkably similar to - and different
from - Enterprise data in the Cloud?
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29. The Semantic Web
http://tr.im/flqo
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31. complex early vision
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32. complex early vision
http://tr.im/timbl
http://tr.im/hendler
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33. URI - 1994
XML - 1998
RDF - 1999/ 2004
OWL - 2004
SPARQL - 2008
Applications - 2007/8
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34. simple principles, pragmatically applied
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35. reaches back to
TimBL’s original
vision of the
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Read/Write Web

36. “the Web done
right”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2008
reaches back to
TimBL’s original
vision of the
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Read/Write Web

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38. http://tr.im/pridor
http://tr.im/calais4
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39. Slide © 2009, Thomson Reuters
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Metadata
3 Which provides
1 returned to the
information and
other Linked
Unstructured user with keys Data pointers
Text
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Keys provide
access to the Calais
Linked Data cloud
2
Calais extracts
entities, facts and To a range of open
6
events and partner Linked
data assets –
possibly including
including
Thomson Reuters
TR in the future
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41. NSF, JISC etc getting
to grips with massive
data sets
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42. Amazon - ‘public’ data free
online, avoiding net work
costs of loading data
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43. Amazon - ‘public’ data free
online, avoiding net work
costs of loading data
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44. cut costs, mass produce, standardise -
create opportunities for growth
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45. cut costs, mass produce, standardise -
create opportunities for growth
Data as Commodity
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46. data is a cost
we treat all data as Core and confidential
most actually Context and a commodity
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Think Different!

47. “from Data Centre
to data-centric”
JP Rangaswami, 2009
data is a cost
we treat all data as Core and confidential
most actually Context and a commodity
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Think Different!

48. lots of closed doors
some hide monsters!
presumption is ‘No’
presumption should be ‘Yes’
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49. What if…
-crowdsourced address updates
-wisdom of crowds, like GoldCorp mining
data in Canada
-expose some commercial data, in return
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for benefits from competitor insight

50. ‘The Data Exhaust’
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51. common to try to copyright data… or to
use a CC license to ‘do the right thing’.
Copyright does not apply, and as CC based
on copyright, CC doesn’t work either.
©
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52. common to try to copyright data… or to
use a CC license to ‘do the right thing’.
Copyright does not apply, and as CC based
on copyright, CC doesn’t work either.
X
©
does not apply
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53. Image for illustrative purposes.
I am not applying a CC0 license
to this presentation.
Contract Law works… or initiatives opendatacommons.org
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such as CC0 and Open Data Commons. wiki.creativecommons.org/CCZero

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55. Closing Thoughts
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57. most data ‘context’ not ‘core’
but we apply one size fits all thinking…
move from a presumption of ‘No’ to a presumption of ‘Yes’
data as commodity; can we let go?
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58. most data ‘context’ not ‘core’
but we apply one size fits all thinking…
move from a presumption of ‘No’ to a presumption of ‘Yes’
data as commodity; can we let go?
Semantic Web thinking lets us address data at Web scale
the primacy of the link
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59. please…
Even NYT did last week
“Stop hugging
your data”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
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