Ben Gardner | Delivering a Linked Data warehouse and integrating across the wider enterprise
- 1. Delivering a Linked Data warehouse and integrating across the wider enterprise Ben Gardner – Linklaters LLP Semantics September 2016
- 2. 11 Summary • Information discovery requirements • What we did • Linked Data in Action • Conclusion
- 3. 22 Accessing the right information is challenging Diverse Range of Specialisations Information Seeking Behaviour Information is Silo’ed Information Hierarchy
- 5. 44 Building a Linked Data Warehouse demo Excel Reports XML File RDF Management Triple Store Model UI S O ETL Platform OData + OData4Sparql Sparql + Linked Data Warehouse Data Access Exploration
- 6. Linked Data and Model • Traditional approaches try to identify how the data is to be “captured” upfront. • You can do this with the linked data model • But we don’t…..Why? • Always leads to “Paralysis by Analysis” • You will miss so much. • And take a huge amount of time doing it. • You will find that there is a huge amount of information and relationships you never would of thought if starting from the model. • Then there are tricks you can do to add huge value • The data model evolves very rapidly from the data and can be further tweaked at anytime. Let the data express itself • Source by source, row by row let the data tell you what it is describing. • What it is, what relationships and metadata it has. • You’ll find a lot more information that you simply couldn’t describe in a RDMS • Another source can add to an existing item without you even having to think
- 7. 66 Degree Person Matter Jurisdic tion Jurisdic tion College Sector Person Person Client Manager Partner Client Area Client Person Manager Area Linked Data and Model : Individual Model Fragments
- 8. 77 Degree Matter Jurisdic tion College Sector Person Client Manager Partner Client Area Client Manager Area Linked Data and Model: Fragments automatically align
- 9. ETL & Linked Data Creation & Management In4mium Talend modules • Semantic modules ready to use through configuration in Talend • No API knowledge required by users • Range of modules (over 60 ) for all aspects of linked data creation and management • Create fully semantic apps • Or pick and mix with traditional aspects • Works seamlessly with existing Talend environment and modules • Model driven behaviours are now possible • Easily add sematic technologies into existing service architectures • All the benefits without the hassle
- 10. 99 OData4Sparql – Simplifying integration + • Brings together the strength of a ubiquitous RESTful interface standard (OData) with the flexibility, federation ability of RDF/SPARQL. • SPARQL/OData Interop proposed W3C interoperation proxy between OData and SPARQL (Kal Ahmed, 2013) • Opens up many popular user-interface development frameworks and tools such as Kendo UI, SAPUI5, etc. • Acts as a Janus-point between application development and data-sources. • User interface developers are not, and do not want to be, database developers. Therefore they want to use a standardized interface that abstracts away the database, even to the extent of what type of database: RDBMS, NoSQL, or RDF/SPARQL • By providing an OData4SPARQL server, it opens up any SPARQL data-source to the C#/LINQ development world. • Opens up many productivity tools such as Excel/PowerQuery, and SharePoint to be consumers of SPARQL data such as Dbpedia, Chembl, Chebi, BioPax and any of the Linked Open Data endpoints! • Microsoft has been joined by IBM and SAP using OData as their primary interface method which means there will many application developers familiar with OData as the means to communicate with a backend data source.
- 11. 1010 Model Driven UI Linklaters Data Model Northwind Data Model Things Sample Query Sample Query Relationships between Things Things Relationships between Things
- 12. 1111 Demo of Linked Data in action
- 13. 1212 Strings to Things to Facts Click on a ‘thing’ displays a ‘Lens’ about that ‘thing’ that shows different fragments that displays facts about the thing The ‘About’ fragment shows most relevant information. Compare with the Google knowledge graph The ‘Person Involved’ fragment list all persons involved with the matter The ‘Financial Summary’ calculates a financial summary … and we can find associated deal ‘things’. If we want more details about any ‘thing’ we can now navigate to its ‘lens’
- 14. 1313 Lens Discovery Navigating through ‘Gerald Grant’, the managing partner for the Matter, takes us to his Lens Navigating through the associated deal takes us to that deal’s Lens Or show the Lens on the client of the matter One is not limited to facts within the application. In the case of a client we can navigate to their Companies House page (or it could have been D&B, LinkDocs etc)
- 15. 1414 Composing Questions Advanced Searches can be selected from the list which then displays a query in a different format that allows better control over the search Advanced Searches can be selected from the list which then displays a query in a different format that allows better control over the search The advanced search allows conditions to be added that link to other ‘things’ or limit the values of ‘facts’ about the associated ‘thing’. This allows much more precise searches to be executed
- 16. 1515 OData integration with Excel Power Query/Pivot OData OData4Sparql Power Query Data Grabber/Shaper • Build queries and utilise expand to traverse graph • Limited data transformation can be incorporated into the queries • Create multiple views Power Pivot Self Service BI • Integrate across Power Queries and other sources to build ROLAP models • Explore model with Pivot tables Power View Power Map Pivots, Charts & Grids Tableau, etc. Power Query Power Pivot
- 17. 1616 Conclusion
- 18. 1717 Linked Data has delivered • Elimination of silos through creation of logical data warehouse that is extensible across internal and external data sources • Enabled “find and explore” information seeking behaviours • Separation of data modelling from integration provides for easy addition of internal & external data • Ability to support diverse range of specialised domain views onto data • Introduces a Service Orientated Data Architecture simplifying application development • Based on W3C web standards providing future proofing and protection of firms IP (data models)
- 19. 1818 Building a Linked Data Warehouse pilot RDF Management Triple Store Model UI S O ETL Platform OData + OData4Sparql Sparql + Matter Time People Financials Deal Finder Client Book Client Engage K_Docs SAP One FTE (2x0.5) and nine months delivered • Integrated 3 years and 9 months of data from 9 sources • 24 million triples • 62 Things (People, Matters, Clients, etc.) • 127 Relationships between Things • 223 Data attributes
- 20. 1919 Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #10: In this picture we show just two In4mium modules being used alongside standard Talend modules. This workflow is showing filters, transformations and lookup joins before the data is converted to RDF. It is the Rdfiser that converts the standard data on the flow to RDF. The RDf can then be managed in triple stores or as in this case written to files. The RDFizer is itself model driven as it uses an RDF r2rml configuration file. The talend job can be deployed as a stand alone java executable or deployed as a web service within your architecture. Foundation Platform: Talend Gartner Magic Quadrant Open Studio and enterprise versions Composable visual java development environment Solution frameworks for Integration, BPM, MDM, ESB, Data Quality, Big data Configuration 1000’s of module to configure into applications ETL, Amazon Cloud, Hadoop, BI Modules are java injection routines Well supported community Highly scalable efficient code generation Deployable as within service architectures Adds to your existing architecture Not a rip and replace! BUT Lacks any knowledge of Semantic data handling and management