The Cloud of Data
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) promotes the creation, dissemination and use of ‘open knowledge.’ As part of this activity OKFN developed a data repository called CKAN, and has seen this become increasingly important to a range of data dissemination activities such as data.gov.uk and publicdata.eu. In this podcast I talk with OKFN Director Rufus Pollock [...]
Rufus Pollock and Irina Bolychevsky discuss the Open Knowledge Foundation and CKAN [ 52:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadKasabi sees its role very much as an enabler of aggregation. Rather than focusing, as some data markets do, on simply providing access to data sets, Kasabi is betting on the power of being able to combine and recombine data in compelling new ways. Hidden under the hood, Talis’ platform technology leverages the potential of [...]
As CEO Steve Ballmer has noted more than once, Microsoft’s future plans see the company going “all in” with the cloud. The company’s cloud play, Azure, offers the capabilities that we might expect from a cloud, and includes infrastructure such as virtual machines and storage as well as the capability to host and run software [...]
Data Market Chat: Piyush Lumba discusses Microsoft's Azure Data Marketplace [ 41:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHouston-based data startup Datafiniti takes a different attitude to gathering the data that it sells. Rather than negotiate complex deals with the owners of data sets, the company relies upon techniques borrowed from Grid Computing in order to crawl the public web and harvest interesting data along the way. CEO Shion Deysarkar talks about the [...]
Data Market Chat: Shion Deysarkar discusses Datafiniti [ 47:12 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadRedMonk don’t offer a data marketplace and, so far as I know, they have no intention of doing so. Nevertheless, this series of data market podcasts would not have been complete without an opportunity to hear what RedMonk co-founder Stephen O’Grady had to say. A blog post of his, from late last year, was the [...]
Data Market Chat: Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk discusses the bigger picture [ 29:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Paul Miller works at the interface between the worlds of Cloud Computing and the Semantic Web, providing the insights that enable you to exploit the next wave as we approach the World Wide Database.
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