Fox, Mark S. “City Data: Big, Open and Linked.”

From «The GovLab Selected Readings on Open Data«

Fox, Mark S. “City Data: Big, Open and Linked.” Working Paper, Enterprise Integration Laboratory (2013). http://bit.ly/1bFr7oL

• This paper examines concepts that underlie Big City Data using data from multiple cities as examples. It begins by explaining the concepts of Open, Unified, Linked, and Grounded data, which are central to the Semantic Web. Fox then explore Big Data as an extension of Data Analytics, and provide case examples of good data analytics in cities.

• Fox concludes that we can develop the tools that will enable anyone to analyze data, both big and small, by adopting the principles of the Semantic Web:
  • Data being openly available over the internet,
  • Data being unifiable using common vocabularies,
  • Data being linkable using International Resource Identifiers,
  • Data being accessible using a common data structure, namely triples,
  • Data being semantically grounded using Ontologies.