Southampton Linked Open Data Christopher Gutteridge

"If HP knew what HP knows, we'd be three times more profitable." Lew Platt 2

Where else?  Oxford  Edinburgh  Open University  Bristol  Lincoln 3

Where else?  Oxford  Edinburgh  Open University  Bristol  Lincoln  Müenster, Germany 4

Where else?  Oxford  Edinburgh  Open University  Bristol  Lincoln  Müenster, Germany  Tsinghua, China 5

Transparency + Utility 6

 How much did the University spend on Taxis in December 2011? 7

 Where am I going? 8

 How can I get there? 9

 Where am I going?  How can I get there?  Where do I get coffee on the way? 10

11 “Triple Store” (database) Google Docs Excel (via ) Spreadsheet (CSV) RDF direct from application Database RDF Document Web Page Map (KML)

Datasets  Buildings and Places  Points of Service  Menus and Prices  Publications  Programmes & Modules  Bus Stops & Routes  Teaching Rooms & Facilities  Payments over £500  … 12 No research data? …Not yet, that’s a different shape problem to organisational data!

Data Sources  Buildings and Estates  Transport Office  Catering  Nuffield Theatre  Student Helpers  Finance  Romanse (Bus Times)  MUD  BANNER  Syllabus+  EPrints & EdShare  UniStats 13

Crowd-Sourcing 14

Colin-Sourcing 15

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Where Next? 17

Where Next?  Building energy use  Research Facility Equipment  Recycling Data  Live database Hookups to BANNER etc.  Greener Transport Information – Showers! 18

Where Next?  Student Contest 19

Where next?  Printers and Photocopiers  Pricelists for on-campus businesses (Stile, Bookshop etc.)  Workstation Clusters & Installed Software  University Structure & Organogram  Teaching Room Availability 20

New Applications…  Transport information  Student Induction  Mobile Information 21

Where Next?  Catalog of Research Data  Repository of Research Datasets 22

Return on Investment 23

Return on Investment “The Open Day map, based on open data, amazed so many of our visitors, is was great example of how our leading edge research has translated into a very real an practical application, second only to Soton Bus!” – University of Southampton Pro Vice- Chancellor Education, Professor Debra Humphris 24

Return on Investment  “As a Caterer I am often quoting that ‘I bake bread, I don’t do IT!’ we like to keep it simple and this is exactly what Open data does for us. We can use formats and software we are used to and manage up to date real time information. This will ensure we are keeping customers up to date with information that they want. There is more to come as well and in Catering we have designed our whole web site and marketing strategy around the Open Data technology, watch this space Catering is catching up.”  - James Leeming University of Southampton Retail Catering Manager 25

Discussion  List two or more datasets.  What R.O.I. could you give the data providers?  What link could you exploit to do cool stuff? 26

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