Paul Miller

Last year, I published a draft version of the Linked Data Horizon Scan that I had been commissioned to write for the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
The final version of that report is available today, both in commentable form via JISC’s JISCPress tool and for download as a PDF.
JISC’s associated call to fund Linked [...]

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Regardless of where you stand on some of the questions of detail with respect to the Linked Data meme, it’s clear that significant enthusiasm is being marshalled behind both the concept and the opportunities that it promises.
Dion Hinchcliffe looks at some of the means by which enterprise data can be more visible on [...]

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A short post, sparked by two related items that arrived by Twitter and email almost simultaneously.
Via Twitter, TechnologyReview reports that it’s getting easier to visualise massive data sets without the traditional supercomputer.
Via email, the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announces its contribution of £200,000 to a joint funding call with the United [...]