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Data feed, RDF data resource, product feed, news feed
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News
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I’m glad to announce a new tool – unified data feed (Ufeed) now available on web2express.org. This tool allows individuals and organizations to create data feeds for products, news, events, jobs and studies on the web. At the same time, the data you enter also exist as semantic data resources that you and your audience can reuse across the web. When you visit web2express.org, this free data feed service is presented to you by default. You can simply sign up, which gives you a private workspace to create and manage your data feeds.  To provide the data feeds on your web site, simply insert the feeds’ URIs into your web pages.  All of the data feed and RDF data resources on this web site are open to the public.Â
Developing a practical tool/service for people to open their data on the semantic web is one of the main goals web2express.org has been pursuing as an open lab. The first semantic publishing tool released last year is a plugin for Wordpress blogger. Many people have checked out the demo for the web2x semantic blogging. However, it requires installing the software on user’s web server, which is a big hurdle for many people.  I feel the best tool for many users would be a free online service – no need to install and maintain any software. Thus, the unified data feed online service is born.
The Ufeed service is designed to ease the pain of many individuals and small organizations that have not yet been able to provide data feeds. Web feed is becoming an increasingly important marketing channel. I hope you will find Ufeed a useful service – enabling you to regain the competitive edge in the current evolution of data web.Â
Enjoy feeding your data!
-AJ
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AJ Chen
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AJ Chen
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Open data is being talked about on the web as a new movement toward better data sharing and reuse around the globe. It’s closely related to Open Access movement, although it’s less known than open access. Open access usually concerns about traditional publications, which the science community is demanding more openly access to. But, if you extend the thinking of open access to the experiment data themselves, then open access means the same thing as open data.
Here are 10 questions I ask myself in order to figure out whether open data make sense or not:
- What data? Where are they?
- Can everyone access these data today?
- How to make data openly accessible today?
- Can the data be discovered (searched) easily and effectively?
- Can the data be compared, shared and reused automatically (by computer)?
- What are the new and better ways to share data over the Internet?
- Will better data sharing and reuse on the web scale accelerate the science advancement?
- Given the importance of open access to data, then why did we do it before?
- What’s biggest challenge of open data movement?
- Is there a hope here?
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Open data, semantic web, open access, scientific publishing
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Internet communication
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AJ Chen
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AJ Chen