Jeffrey C. Witt (Loyola University Maryland) | @jeffreycwitt
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, December 1, 2016
Slide Deck: http://lombardpress.org/slides/2016-12-01-helsinki-open-science/
In sum: research groups are currently choosing the most inefficient way possible to make data avaialable on the web, while leaving us with results that go barely beyond the capabilities of the printed page.
Despite the inarguable benefits the Web provides, until recently the same principles that enabled the Web of documents to flourish have not been applied to data. Traditionally, data published on the Web has been made available as raw dumps in formats such as CSV or XML, or marked up as HTML tables, sacrificing much of its structure and semantics. In the conventional hypertext Web, the nature of the relationship between two linked documents is implicit, as the data format, i.e. HTML, is not sufficiently expressive to enable individual entities described in a particular document to be connected by typed links to related entities.
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