My presentation at XTech 2008

1. Here Be Dragons Knowing Where the World Ends Leigh Dodds Chief Technology Officer Ingenta

2. MEDIEVAL MAPPING

3. LANDMARKS Defining landmarks on the open data landscape

4. Points of Reference

5. Five W’s (and one H) I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling, “ The Elephant’s Child”, 1902

6. FRBR

7. Data Standards

8. Measuring Success

9. SAFE GROUND How do we know what is stable territory?

10. Preservation "...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1791

11. Publishers & the DOI

12. EXPOSURE What are our points of exposure?

13. Legal Issues

14. Data Security

15. BARTERING WITH THE NATIVES How do we enable free exchange of data?

16. Due Diligence

17. Me an s of Access

18. THE WARY TRAVELLER Some thoughts on data portability

19. Return of the King

20. CONCLUSIONS Questions? Images courtesy of Wikipedia & Karen’s Whimsy