The New Data Activity

A possible TAG perspective
7 January 2014

http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0701_phila_tag/

Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>

@philarcher1

The kind of thing we mean

Diagrammatic view of the predominant links in the chain from data producers through different formats and enhancements to Web applications, particularly related to tabular data. Starting on the left hand side, various well established software and tool chains are able to export tabular data as CSV (or TSV) which is readily converted to JSON. Using a lightweight description vocabulary, it's possible to create a metadata description for tabular data that then opens up many possibilities. The combination of data plus metadata can be used directly in Web applications, it can be used to enrich HTML (through RDFa or microdata), or transformed into XML or RDF. There are many routes through which those data formats can be accessed by Web applications. The result is that there are multiple entry points and multiple access points to the web of data with little need to worry about the format of the original data source(s).
Diagrammatic view of the predominant links in the chain from data producers through different formats and enhancements to Web applications, particularly related to tabular data. Starting on the left hand side, various well established software and tool chains are able to export tabular data as CSV (or TSV) which is readily converted to JSON. Using a lightweight description vocabulary, it's possible to create a metadata description for tabular data that then opens up many possibilities. The combination of data plus metadata can be used directly in Web applications, it can be used to enrich HTML (through RDFa or microdata), or transformed into XML or RDF. There are many routes through which those data formats can be accessed by Web applications. The result is that there are multiple entry points and multiple access points to the web of data with little need to worry about the format of the original data source(s).
Diagrammatic view of the predominant links in the chain from data producers through different formats and enhancements to Web applications, particularly related to tabular data. Starting on the left hand side, various well established software and tool chains are able to export tabular data as CSV (or TSV) which is readily converted to JSON. Using a lightweight description vocabulary, it's possible to create a metadata description for tabular data that then opens up many possibilities. The combination of data plus metadata can be used directly in Web applications, it can be used to enrich HTML (through RDFa or microdata), or transformed into XML or RDF. There are many routes through which those data formats can be accessed by Web applications. The result is that there are multiple entry points and multiple access points to the web of data with little need to worry about the format of the original data source(s).
Diagrammatic view of the predominant links in the chain from data producers through different formats and enhancements to Web applications, particularly related to tabular data. Starting on the left hand side, various well established software and tool chains are able to export tabular data as CSV (or TSV) which is readily converted to JSON. Using a lightweight description vocabulary, it's possible to create a metadata description for tabular data that then opens up many possibilities. The combination of data plus metadata can be used directly in Web applications, it can be used to enrich HTML (through RDFa or microdata), or transformed into XML or RDF. There are many routes through which those data formats can be accessed by Web applications. The result is that there are multiple entry points and multiple access points to the web of data with little need to worry about the format of the original data source(s).
Diagrammatic view of the predominant links in the chain from data producers through different formats and enhancements to Web applications, particularly related to tabular data. Starting on the left hand side, various well established software and tool chains are able to export tabular data as CSV (or TSV) which is readily converted to JSON. Using a lightweight description vocabulary, it's possible to create a metadata description for tabular data that then opens up many possibilities. The combination of data plus metadata can be used directly in Web applications, it can be used to enrich HTML (through RDFa or microdata), or transformed into XML or RDF. There are many routes through which those data formats can be accessed by Web applications. The result is that there are multiple entry points and multiple access points to the web of data with little need to worry about the format of the original data source(s).
Diagrammatic view of the predominant links in the chain from data producers through different formats and enhancements to Web applications, particularly related to tabular data. Starting on the left hand side, various well established software and tool chains are able to export tabular data as CSV (or TSV) which is readily converted to JSON. Using a lightweight description vocabulary, it's possible to create a metadata description for tabular data that then opens up many possibilities. The combination of data plus metadata can be used directly in Web applications, it can be used to enrich HTML (through RDFa or microdata), or transformed into XML or RDF. There are many routes through which those data formats can be accessed by Web applications. The result is that there are multiple entry points and multiple access points to the web of data with little need to worry about the format of the original data source(s).

Data on the Web Best Practices - building the ecosystem

Plus 2 vocabularies:

Workshops

Linking Geospatial Data
5th - 6th March 2014, Campus London
Share-PSI 2.0
EU-funded series of 5 workshops around public sector data 2014-2015, will feed DWBP WG
DWBP WG Meetings
Likely to hold f2f meetings in consultation with city authorities. e.g. San Francisco for TPAC?? or collocated with Research Data Alliance plenaries??

Potential crossover with other (potential) W3C work

Potential crossover with other (potential) W3C work

http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0701_phila_tag/

Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>

@philarcher1