Comments on: From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Data Business Models | ScraperWiki Data Blog https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-771 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:47:05 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-771 […] you still have to look at the data yourself, but it is made much easier. This approaches the ‘data hubs’ that Francis likes talking […]

]]> By: starkravingcoder https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-770 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:43:27 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-770 The underlying technology, in my mind, ought to be topic maps, which is used in knowledge management (cf. ‘The tao of topic maps’ at http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html ). The reason is quite simple, its not the data itself which is interesting, so much as the connections between data. Topic maps describe individual bits of data (topics) as well at the associations that data has with other data. Its these relationships that you really want to know about. Since Topic Maps have a defined query language, using them is relatively easy.

One of the most useful things you can do with topic maps is merge them. Basically it lets you combine the knowledge of a number of disparate sources and because there is also a mechanism for establishing identity (so the topic for London in Ontario, Canada is not confused with London in Britain) the merging is meaningful. You might have a topic map about Italian Opera and I might have a topic map about historical populations and disease and when you merge the two, you suddenly know that at the time when Puccini wrote some opera in Vienna, the population dropped 90% from the previous year due to an outbreak of hangnails.

Play around with a good topic map browser at http://www.ontopia.net/omnigator/models/index.jsp.

]]> By: radj https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-769 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:12:26 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-769 Didn’t this start with Gapminder (Gapminder.org) – the clever bit of which is now owned by Google.

]]> By: From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data « Smiling Sky https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-768 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:20:39 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-768 […] een interessante blogpost gevonden met een bespiegeling over een Data Management Systeem en verwijzingen naar sites die dit […]

]]> By: Francis Irving https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-767 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:56:42 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-767 Tom – Yes! I’ve now added them to the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_management_system#List_of_DMSs and referenced it with a Quora answer where Kevin Merritt, CEO of Socrata, draws a diagram showing Socrata as a datahub.

]]> By: Tom Steinberg https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-766 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:35:42 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-766 You should add Socrata to your list

]]> By: The Other Sort of Higher Education Standards… « OUseful.Info, the blog… https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-765 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:53:32 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-765 […] Tim Davies on NT Open Data Days: Exploring data flow in a VCO, Francis Irving and Rufus Pollock on From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data. Rate this: Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this […]

]]> By: Sam https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-764 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:24:30 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-764 The argument is nice, but flawed. The analogy is not a cms, but something of more specific appeal such as A freedom of information request management system.

Most will be terrible, most focussed internally, and generally won’t spit out easily the thing you’re interested in today only.

But it’s a lot better than nothing for the majority of the task.

]]> By: Imperdibles (marzo 7th – marzo 12th) » Hipertextos [desde La Plata] https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-763 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:02:45 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-763 […] From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data – This is a joint blog post by Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki, and Rufus Pollock, Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. It’s being cross-posted to both blogs. […]

]]> By: plerudulier https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/#comment-762 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:19:24 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216590#comment-762 Reblogged this on Things I grab, motley collection .

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