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Date: Monday, 7 May 2018, 3pm Central European Time
Duration: 60 min
Content: Secondary reuse of data by a community is limited by the way in which data is described at source and the protocols through which data can be accessed. In the absence of community-adopted data descriptions for annotating data sets, the discovery and reuse of target data is limited to local users. Sharing of data and services annotated with standard terminologies provides opportunities to integrate data for applications beyond the original project goals. This enables easy data discovery for developers and search engines and drives the development of bespoke decision support tools with significant impact for end users.
Presenter:
Dr. Chris Baker - co-founder and CEO of IPSNP Computing Inc., an industry leader in semantic data federation with products in healthcare surveillance and agricultural decision support. IPSNP is a partner of the G8’s Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative that advocates for the release and reuse of agricultural and nutritionally relevant data sets in support of high level policy, ensuring global food security. Dr. Baker’s career has spanned both industry and academia, in Austria, Canada, Singapore and the UK. He holds a professorship at the University of New Brunswick and is currently Chair of the Computer Science Department in Saint John. He has core expertise in Open Data Integration and Interoperability and serves on the advisory board of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity. In 2016 he was a finalist for the Canadian Open Data Leader of the year and was invited as a speaker at the Annual Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists of G20 States (MACS-G20) on Linked Open Data in Agriculture in 2017. Using crop and public health data Dr. Baker illustrated how the challenge of real time access and integration of distributed data can be overcome by the provisioning of data using terminology annotated online services. The benefits of this approach include (i) simple service discovery, (ii) easy integration of data, (iii) inter-operation between services, and (iv) the easy construction of complex queries with minimal technical skills. Further to this he described how data access using terminologies can be monitored for system changes and how a reactive system can rebuild itself to avoid service downtime.
Describing community data: consequences & opportunities for knowledge workers - webinar 7 May 2018 — Video recording of the webinar
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