This is our Vision of Ubiquitous Data in the Future :-
This is the underlying Data Platform :-
This is the kind of data that a typical Family will be interested in :-
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Microsoft has developed two interesting facilities :-
PivotViewer Data Visualisation Tool
Single View of the Government
User Scenarios
User Scenarios are a very powerful technique.
In this case, let's imagine A typical Family planning to move to London.England.
They would like to find good schools, compare crime statistics, hospitals, the price of houses and so on.
Mashup Tools are very important and here's a very useful
Review from ZDNet.
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This shows a BI approach, with Traffic Lights showing Red, Amber or Green depending on the situation.
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This shows the POC SOA Middleware Layer with an Enterprise Service Bus and so on.
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This shows a simpler version of the Architecture without Web Services and where the Enterprise Service Bus is optional.
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2. Commercial Activities
Here is a number of relevant activities :-
1. IBM Mashup Center
2. IBM's Smarter Planet.
3. Microsoft's Single View Government Platform
4. Microsoft's RSS Feed
5. UK Government Open Data Initiative
(with the help of Tim Berners-Lee), includes Mashups.
6. Jackbe Presto Mashups
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The underlying Data Model is shown on another page.
Here is a Vision of the Future of Databases, and you can check out our Presentations.
This Vision brings up some very interesting challenges, and this Proof-of-Concept explores them with the aim of building a State-of-the-Art demo.
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