Reasons to use OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS)
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 OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server which has both Commercial and GPL licensing[/note]
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Okay, so this is basically the list of all acronyms supported by ODS. But what can I actually *do* with it?
Hi Richard
Its good to hear from you again.
Anyways, you ask what can you actually *do* with ODS. Well, it is built to be a social networking tool, just like LinkedIn. However its a bit more than that, because we have our own components built in, so anyone on the system is able to have their own wiki, blog, address book, mail app or CRM (or other). This is how we offer the user of the system their own Personal Space for Data or “Personal Data Space”. This is why the user may be interested.
Of course, the reasons I specified in the post are the reasons which I enjoy… mainly because my background is in programming. I expect the reasons that I explained in my post would be more interesting to the programmers and to potential clients rather than why the user would be interested. However, I’ve just expanded a bit more in this comment about the “Personal Data Space” idea, which would be more relevant to a user of ODS.
I hope that makes some kind of sense. Feel free to ask more questions.
Daniel
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