Bernadette Hyland, CEO & co-founder of 3 Round Stones, winner of Best Semantic Technology Company 2012, highlights how leading North & South American organizations are using publishing trusted, authoritative data on the Web. She highlights a US health care company using Open Government Data to notify asthmatics on air quality. Bernadette highlights the Energy Innovation Center at the Inter-American Development Bank who recently launched energy statistics using Linked Open Data for improved SEO, discovery, access and data re-use.

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How America’s Leading Authorities are Publishing & Consuming Open Data on the Web !
Bernadette Hyland, co-founder CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
3RoundStones.com ! Level: Business/Strategic
! For
people
who
need
data
to
do
their
job,
the
biggest
challenge
is
simply
ge7ng
access
to
the
informa9on
they
need.
Government
agencies,
interna9onal
development
banks,
and
educa9onal
ins9tu9ons
are
among
the
many
organiza9ons
crea9ng
and
publishing
high
quality
data
intended
for
worldwide
discovery,
access
and
re-­‐use.
Join
us
in
a
fast-­‐paced
overview
of
how
and
why
organiza9ons
are
taking
an
Open
Data
+
Open
Source
approach.
Learn
who
benefits.
You
may
be
surprised!
!
3
Round
Stones
has
over
a
decade
of
experience
with
government
agencies,
interna9onal
development
banks
and
the
private
sector
facilita9ng
discovery,
access
and
re-­‐use
of
data
on
cultural
heritage,
healthcare,
our
environment
and
energy
innova9on.
!3
Round
Stones
ac9vely
supports
several
widely
deployed
Open
Source
projects
including
the
Persistent
URLs
Project
(hQp://purlz.org)
and
Callimachus
(hQp://callimachusproject.org).
3
Round
Stones
also
provides
commercial
licenses
&
support
for
Callimachus
Enterprise
with
Ac9ve
PURLs.
Callimachus
Enterprise
is
soYware
that
allows
you
to
easily
explore
and
create
visualiza9ons
from
a
variety
of
data
sources.
!C
allimachus
Enterprise
breaks
down
barriers
in
order
to
access,
integrate
and
visualize
data
from
a
variety
of
sources.
This
means
you
can
spend
less
9me
naviga9ng
a
technical
obstacle
course
to
combine
the
data
you
need,
and
more
9me
doing
what’s
really
important
—
finding
insights.
!
!
Ms.
BernadeQe
Hyland
is
as
a
subject
maQer
expert
on
Web-­‐scale
data
integra9on
projects.
Author
of
interna9onally
peer-­‐reviewed
data
best
prac9ces
published
by
the
W3C
and
Springer,
she
has
helped
pioneer
discovery,
access
and
re-­‐use
of
some
of
the
most
popular
open
data
sets.
A
trusted
adviser
to
senior
execu9ves,
journalists
and
researchers,
she
is
invited
to
speak
at
na9onal
and
interna9onal
fora
on
the
topic
of
digital
innova9on
and
strategy.