Linking open data to augmented intelligence and the economy
Nigel Shadbolt talking to Alex Howard of O’Reilly about Artificial Intelligence, the Open Data Institute and the Midata initiative.
Articles about Nigel Shadbolt
A Cornerstone for Open Data: The Postcode Address File
Nigel Shadbolt’s blog for the Open Data Institute on the Royal Mail’s stewardship of the Postcode Address File (PAF), a database of addresses and postcodes of 28 million UK households.
An Information System to support the Engineering Designer
A research paper by Richard Crowder, David Fowler, Quentin Reul, Derek Sleeman, Nigel Shadbolt and Gary Wills introducing and evaluating a new piece of software to support the maintenance and design of aircraft engines.
Launching the Open Data Institute: bottom-up, middle-out, top-down
Nigel Shadbolt on Gov 2.0 Radio speaking about the Open Data Institute in London. He discusses the requirement for new economic models encompassing Open Data and his hopes for the Open Data project over the next year.
Gov 2.0 Radio was founded in 2009 by Adriel Hampton in the U.S. to provide an information resource for topics relating Open Data, the Internet and government.
Nigel Shadbolt talks at the Big Data World Europe conference
The conference was Europe’s first ever Big Data conference. Its aim was to inform senior marketing and IT executives about Big Data.
The conference took place on the 19th and 20th of September in London.
Professor Shadbolt’s talk was entitled “Reconnecting with your customer: how ‘Midata’ will build trust and create business value.”
He discussed the relationship between organisations and consumers, the nature of Midata and the advantages to organisations of getting involved with the Midata scheme.
Other eminent speakers included Katherine Fithen, Chief Privacy Officer at the Coca Cola Company, Michel Floyd, CTO at YouGov, Sarah Phenix, Head of the Group Privacy Programme at Barclays, and Iain Welsh, Head of Information Delivery at RBS.
mashpoint: Browsing the Web Along Structured Lines
Research paper by Igor Popov, m.c. schraefel, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on a new framework for exploring data over distributed systems using a number of different applications.
Combining Link and Content-based Information in a Bayesian Inference Model for Entity Search
A research paper by Christos Koumenides and Nigel Shadbolt on using Bayesian inference networks for entity searches.
Open data and charities
A report by Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Thanassis Tiropanis, Kieron O’Hara and Tim Davies, describing the ways in which the charitable sector can utilise Open Data to improve intelligence gathering, the targeting of services, knowledge sharing and collaboration with other organisations. The report also discusses technical and organisational challenges in the use of Open Data and makes recommendations for its implementation in the charitable sector.
Linked Open Government Data: Lessons from data.gov.uk
An article in IEEE Intelligent Systems on open government data, by Nigel Shadbolt, Kieron O’Hara, Tim Berners-Lee, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Wendy Hall and m.c. schraefel, discussing data migration, integration into the Web of Linked Data, provenance, extracting value from the data and lessons learned from the EnAKTing project.
Structural Analysis of Online Criminal Social Networks
Research paper by Michael Yip, Nigel Shadbolt and Craig Webber on research in collaboration with the U.K. Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which uses private messaging records to examine the networks of personal interactions between cybercriminals involved in online black markets.