Making Sense of Open Data: From Raw Data to Actionable Insight

Making Sense of Open Data: From Raw Data to Actionable Insight

Davis, C.B.

Weijnen, M.P.C. (promotor)

Technology, Policy and Management

Energy & Industry

2012-11-08

The Web is radically changing the ways in which we can collectively compile, curate, filter and make sense of information. This holds promise for embracing complexity and truly informed decisions for sustainability in a connected world. In this book, Chris Davis reveals that there exists tremendous untapped potential of the Web, of Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source. He argues that more researchers need to become aware of and engaged with the new tools and possibilities the Web offers. He analyses how tools such as Wikis, the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data already facilitate some scientific communities. Thus, he explores our relationship with data and the philosophies behind the Web. Addressing the challenge of how to collect and liberate data for research on large-scale energy and industry systems, he extracts design requirements for an evolving knowledge infrastructure. These are used to create Enipedia.tudelft.nl, a Semantic Wiki for energy and industry data. This site already serves a growing community of researchers and professionals around the world in their analysis and modeling work. Read this thesis to understand how to get started with the Web technologies that are already changing the nature of research work.

Semantic Web
Wiki
Agent Based Model
Open Data
Energy
Industry
Semantic Wiki

https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:88c3c6f9-d6a2-4a82-9353-884a3b77b6ed

Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation

9789079787418

Institutional Repository

doctoral thesis

(c) 2012 Davis, C.B.