Structured Data In Context

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Structured Data In Context

• Alon Halevy

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My Point

• Structured and unstructured data are often mixed
  together
• On web, discussion forums, science, personal info
• We need to build systems to manage data in such
  contexts.
• Ill give one example
• Methodology for addressing such issues
• Eat our own dogfood.

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Looking for data management problems in the
rainforest in Costa Rica
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Cutting Off a Leg
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I Created a Row in a Database!
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They Want Easy Sharing and Update
Upload rules

GUID
Download rules
Pub Med
ACG
Guelph
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They Disagree on Data!
Janzen is wrong
Upload rules

GUID
Download rules
Pub Med
ACG
Guelph
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They Want it on the Web

GUID
Pub Med
ACG
Guelph
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The Challenge

• Build systems that enable communities to
• Collaborate
• Discuss, disagree and find the ground truth
• See also many-eyes.com, swivel,
• Are there common principles to scenarios
  involving structured-data in context?

Yes, this is a dataspace
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Eating our own Dogfood

• Lets stop talking about users
• Lets be users!
• Find sets of data our community cares about (the
  obvious ones)
• Get first hand experience of how hard it is to
  manage, share, collaborate, discuss,
• Come up with innovative solutions.