What is Connected Data as a concept? Who is interested in Connected Data? What problems does Connected Data solve? What skills are used in Connected Data? Connected Data as of July 2017 has been running for over a year with very successful conference and 9 meetups held to date on a range of topics. These have included Knowledge Representation, Semantics, Linked Data, Graph Databases, Ontology development and use cases and industry verticals including recommendations, telecoms and finance. Yet the group has never had a particularly formal terms of reference or description defining what Connected Data actually means. Some would say this is something of a irony for a group so focused on semantics, schemas, definitions & structure! This is an attempt (with some humour and something of journey included in it) to achieve something resembling a definition and terms of reference for the group.

1. CONNECTED DATA LONDON
www.connected-data.london
The group for AI, Graph Databases and Linked Data & Semantics practitioners
July 2017 meetup
@Connected_Data

2. www.connected-data.london
You’re in good company
Where are we?
• Meetup # 9
• 530+ members
• Past meetups on:
• Graph Databases, Knowledge Representation, Fraud, Telecoms, Linked Data, Triplestores, Linked Open Data, Data
Visualisation, Network Analysis, Financial Services…
• Future meetups on?
• 75 attendees at CDL16
• CDL17 – 120+ attendees - November 16th

3. www.connected-data.london
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What ‘Connected Data’ is not
• “Schemas are expensive & reduce flexibility”
• “Its only metadata”
• “More Data = More Insights!”
• “Big Data is inherently messy, poor data quality is part of the territory”
• NoSQL
• “Do we have to model the data upfront? Cant we just build the
application?”
• “What’s the difference if rules sit in the database or application code?”

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What is ‘Connected Data’?

5. www.connected-data.london
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What is ‘Connected Data’?

6. www.connected-data.london
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What is ‘Connected Data’?

7. www.connected-data.london
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What is ‘Connected Data’?
https://www.oclc.org

8. www.connected-data.london
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What’s the requirement?
• A social networking platform?
• A product recommendation engine?
• A jobs & candidates / skills matching engine?
• A Knowledge Management / Educational tool?
• A data integration / exchange standard or toolset?

9. Connected Data landscape 2017
Network Visualisation
Linked Data Formats
www.connected-data.london
© V1.0 April 2017
Standards & Standards
bodies
RDF Triple & quadstores
‘Multimodel’ databases Graph databases
Strabon
Graph frameworks
FlockGraphEngine
BrightstarDB
Graph query languages
Redstore
Smart Data Lakes & Virtualisation Ontology editing, annotation &
Semantic search
AI / ML platforms
Data sources &
Knowledge bases
Natural Language
Processing

10. www.connected-data.london
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What is ‘Connected Data’?
“Data related Disciplines &
Technologies where the relationships,
rules, structure, meaning & context are
treated as first class citizens”.

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Conference format & location
CDL17 @ IET Savoy Place on 16th November
• 4 Themes:
• AI & Connected Data
• Linked Open Data
• Getting started
• Schema centric vs Schemaless
• 2 Tracks – main & lightening
• 120+ AI, Graph, Semantic & Linked Data attendees
• 25+ Connected Data thought leaders & industry leaders
• 12+ hours of exclusive presentations