EPA Linked Data Service

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“We’re moving from managing documents to managing discrete pieces of open data and content which can be tagged, shared, secured, mashed up and presented in the way that is most useful for the consumer of that information.”

-- Report on Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People

Growing chorus ...

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Open Government Data

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Open data + open standards + open platforms

Highly scalable computing &

hosting via the CloudInternational Data Exchange

Standards

5 Star Data (Linked Data)

Open Source tools

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• Linked Data is about publishing and consuming data using international data standards

• Based on 20 year old idea

• A system of linked information systems

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LINKED DATA SUCCESS STORYHTTP://3ROUNDSTONES.COM/2012/10/20/A-REAL-WORLD-LINKED-OPEN-DATA-STORY/

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User

NOAA US EPA AirNow

DBpediaNational Library of Medicine

US EPA SunWise

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