Via post by Daniel Lewis, titled:10 Reasons to use OpenLink Data Spaces
There are quite a few reasons to use OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS). Here are 10 of
the reasons why I use ODS:
- Its native support of DataPortability Recommendations such as
RSS, Atom, APML, Yadis,
OPML, Microformats, FOAF, SIOC,
OpenID and OAuth.
- Its native support of Semantic Web Technologies such as:
RDF and SPARQL/SPARUL for querying.
- Everything in ODS is an Object with its own URI, this is due to the underlying Object-Relational Architecture provided by
Virtuoso.
- It has all the social media components that you could need,
including: blogs, wikis,
social networks, feed
readers, CRM and a calendar.
- It is expandable by installing pre-configured components
(called VADs), or by re-configuring a LAMP application to use Virtuoso. Some examples of current VADs
include: MediaWiki, Wordpress and Drupal.
- It works with external webservices such as: Facebook, del.icio.us and Flickr.
- Everything within OpenLink Data Spaces is Linked Data, which provides more meaningful
information than just plain structural information. This meaningful
information could be used for complex inferencing systems, as ODS
can be seen as a Knowledge Base.
- ODS builds bridges between the existing static-document based
web (aka ‘Web 1.0‘), the more dynamic,
services-oriented, social and/or user-orientated webs (aka
‘Web 2.0‘) and the web which we are just going
into, which is more data-orientated (aka ‘Web
3.0’ or ‘Linked Data Web’).
- It is fully supportive of Cloud Computing, and can be installed on
Amazon EC2.
- Its released free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). [note]However,
it is technically dual licensed as it lays on top of the Virtuoso Universal Server which has both
Commercial and GPL licensing[/note]
The features above collectively provide users with a Linked Data
Junction Box that may reside with corporate intranets or "out in
the clouds" (Internet). You can consume, share, and publish data in
a myriad of formats using a plethora of protocols, without any
programming. ODS is simply about exposing the data from your Web
1.0, 2.0, 3.0 application interactions in structured from, with
Linking, Sharing, and ultimately Meshing (not Mashing) in mind.
Note: Although ODS is equipped with a broad
array of Web 2.0 style Applications, you do not need to use native
ODS apps in order to exploit it's power. It binds to anything that
supports the relevant protocols and data formats.
About this entry:
Author: Kingsley Uyi Idehen
Published: 02/08/2008 17:33 GMT-0500
Modified: 02/08/2008 17:08 GMT-0500
Tags: webservices , web2.0 , web20 , atom , rdf , rss , semanticweb , dataweb , web30 , foaf , sioc , sparql , socialnetworking , openlink , virtuoso , DataSpace , identity_20 , openid , dataspace
Categories: Virtual Database ,
Semantic Web ,
Content Syndication
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