37. shared innovation™
#3 Open education
the idea that the world’s knowledge
is a public good and that the Web
provides an opportunity for everyone to
share, use, and reuse knowledge
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47. shared innovation™
key takeaways:
systems of record still important
embracing linked data will allow
unconstrained and unplanned innovation
the challenge is not technology it is
policy and mindset
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49. shared innovation™
Over to you....
What data can you open up?
What innovations might this enable?
Who is going to be the first open data
university?
50. shared innovation™
Over to you....
http://linkeddata.org
http://www.data.gov.uk
http://www.talis.com/nodalities
http://www.talis.com/education
Introduce Talis
Aim to introduce topics around the semantic web and paint picture of how these relate to education and libraries
3 parts
In any industry, technology comes waves
Waves can be very disruptive
Publishing - paper to printing press, typesetting to desktop publishing, hardcopy to webcopy
Evolution not revolution because adoption happens over a period of years
See the waves - PC - Web 1, Web 2....
Innovation polarised around y2k
Geoffrey Moore’s (author of Crossing the Chasm) theory
2 distinct waves of investment
enterprise
database
systems of record - transactions
CRM, ERP, electronic payments: acronyms
Oracle, IBM, SAP
Pre-2000: Innovation was in enabling transactions: systems of record. Key market: the enterprise. Key technologies: the database, fat client-local server. Key companies: Oracle, IBM, SAP
Familiar examples from within the institution
These are done - small improvements but as systems of record and focus on transactions
Focus inside the firewall
data silos - interoperability is pre-orchestrated or planned.
Specs, formal agreements, use cases upfront, software engineers required. Very fragile.
Post-2000: Innovation is in enabling relationships and interactions.
Key market: personal.
Key companies: Google, Facebook, Twitter
The web is very good at this
All of this is happening in the cloud outside the firewall
Integration is mashups and open APIs and protocols - not pre-orchestrated. Use cases not defined upfront.
driven by convergence of mobile devices, and cloud services that interoperate
Technologies on the left: transactions and records. Characterised by pre-orchestrated integration - specs, party agreements, proprietary protocols.
On the right: interactions and relationships. Characterised by informal integration - multiple players, no contracts, open protocols
Part of the web 3 wave
Disruption is making web data centric not document centric
Next wave
Allowed integration of documents to be informal and not pre-orchestrated.
Imagine if TimBL had enforced backlinks!
Open participation, protocols & specifications
Informal integration led to an explosion in connections between documents.
Technology enabling connections between documents.
You don’t need to know the use case upfront. Integration of documents doesn’t require software engineers or formal specifications and agreement.
Designed for re-use.
This leads to freedom and people appropriating technology to do useful things
Linked data is about publishing data in an agreed way, making it possible to create relationships between datasets.
Connecting up the databases and find new relationships.
Making this simple to do with open standards, existing protocols - anyone can join in. Lowering barriers to entry making it feasible to link out to data you don’t control, in a global context, for the first time.
Explain diagram
Evolution - Linked Data is still only a toddler
Early startups getting involved here - Garlik with QDOS
BBC getting involved here. People starting to “wrap” social networks.
Growing up quickly - now too big to draw.
National Library of Sweden
This is what humans see
This is what mashups will use
wildlife finder
linking out to other datasets and locations on the web
If link data is a technology... Open Data is a movement
UK Government "Making Public Data Public" initiative
Gov recruited TBL and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt
Always more smart people outside google than inside
True whatever the organisation
what happens when organisations open their data
Some examples from data.gov.uk...
data.gov.uk newspaper
UK government executive agency, set up from 1999 to act as a commercial entity.
Months of public consultation, part of a wider government public data policy. Free Our Data campaign lead by Charles Arthur @ Guardian. OS OpenData set up as a result and launched 1st April 2010.
Free use for public and commercial with attribution (compatible with CC-BY).
Challenging concept of data ownership lead to a policy and licensing change which made this possible.
However... all this growth only just starting to transition from the hobbiest data publisher. Organisations only now starting to take note. Just like web 1.0. We’re back in early 90’s.
All the technologies to do linked data have existed for 10-15 years, or even longer - HTTP, cloud architecture, even RDF - but only now is the mind shift gaining traction
Part of the web 3 wave
Disruption is making web data centric not document centric
Facebook est. 2003, mainstream only when your mum starts to use it.
Technology all there to implement before 2000, but the right social norms need to be in place for it to become mainstream.
for me this is where the real innovation in education is happening today
movement enabled by the internet. Increasing use of mobile devices.
next: innovations build on top of these initiatives
p2p uni
self organising over open content
in 2nd cycle
open text books - free to view, educators can customise, pay to print
our own offering helping people unlock and discover resource list content
price incentive for those that do this with open data
synergies with open data movement
just like data.gov.uk
in summary:
innovation is in relationships and interactions, not records
linked data is the architecture for open data on the web
innovation in education is about quality joined up relationships
How will you embrace this new wave?
What data can you open up?
What innovations might this enable?
Who is going to be the first open data university?
Some links here
How will you embrace this new wave?
What data can you open up?
What innovations might this enable?
Who is going to be the first open data university?
Some links here
How will you embrace this new wave?
What data can you open up?
What innovations might this enable?
Who is going to be the first open data university?
Some links here