Open data marketplace for municipal services

• US 9,652,790 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2011
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hobson, Stacy F., Anand, Rangachari, Lee, Juhnyoung, Yang, Jeaha
• Primary Examiner(s): Rudy, Andrew Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/163,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20120323741A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,160 Days
• Field of Search: 705 271, 705 261, 705 263
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

Providing an open data marketplace may include identifying one or more data attributes from a plurality of applications registered with a shared data management system; mapping said one or more data attributes to a data model to create a first set of mapped data; augmenting said first set of mapped data with additional data imported into the shared data management system from other data locations to create an augmented set of mapped data; receiving one or more of second set of mapped data from one or more shared data management system associated respectively with one or more shared data management networks; enabling of composing a data set by combining and cleansing one or more of said first set of mapped data, said second set of mapped data, and said augmented set of mapped data; and offering said composed data set in a digital marketplace with associated pricing characteristics.

Claims

1. A method for open data marketplace, comprising:

identifying, by a processor, one or more data attributes of data objects used by a plurality of applications registered with a shared data management system provided on software as a service platform, said one or more data attributes specified in data schemas of the plurality of applications;

mapping, by the processor, said one or more data attributes to a data model to create a first set of mapped data, the data model being a common data object schema provided by the shared data management that allows data trading and viewing of the data attributes in said data model, the mapping comprising mapping attribute names of said one or more data attributes in the data schemas of the plurality of applications to attribute names of the common data object schema;

receiving from the plurality of applications data content associated with the mapped attribute names and storing the data content in a shared data management database providing the common data object schema;

augmenting, by the processor, said first set of mapped data with additional data imported into the shared data management system from other data locations to create an augmented set of mapped data;

receiving, by the processor, one or more of a second set of mapped data from one or more second shared data management systems associated respectively with one or more shared data management networks;

enabling, by the processor, of composing of a data set by combining and cleansing one or more of said first set of mapped data, said second set of mapped data, and said augmented set of mapped data, the combining and cleansing comprising at least removing duplicated attributes with different names from different applications of the plurality of applications, and keeping different attributes with same names from different applications of the plurality of applications, wherein the data set is composed to comprise attribute names from the common data object schema, and generating a consolidated database of the plurality of applications; and

offering, by the processor, said composed data set in a digital marketplace by an auction,

wherein the plurality of applications deployed on the software as a service platform are allowed to exchange one or more data objects of the composed data set via the digital marketplace auction by requesting data trades and accepting data trade requests,

wherein a data export service allows an application requesting data trade to access the one or more data objects by at least providing a private data storage wherein the application can read the one or more data objects by data query language or by providing a set of application programming interface to allow the application to directly read the one or more data objects in the shared data management system,

the data trades between the plurality of applications integrating the plurality of applications that are running separately on at least one hardware processor.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

identifying a quality measure based on voting or certification or both, the quality measure associated with characteristics of authenticity, reliability, and accuracy of database associated with said other data locations or the plurality of applications contributing to said data set.

3. The method of claim 1, further including:

displaying trade options for one or more buyers and sellers to trade said augmented set of mapped data.

4. The method of claim 2, further including:

automatically assigning a pricing to the data set based on the quantified value and the quality measures.

5. The method of claim 3, further including:

authenticating a buyer and a seller in response to a trade option being approved by the buyer and the seller.

6. The method of claim 5, further including:

exporting purchased augmented data to said buyer from said shared data management system.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of for open data marketplace, comprising:

identifying one or more data attributes of data objects used by a plurality of applications registered with a shared data management system provided on software as a service platform, said one or more data attributes specified in data schemas of the plurality of applications;

mapping said one or more data attributes to a data model to create a first set of mapped data, the data model being a common data object schema provided by the shared data management that allows data trading and viewing of the data attributes in said data model, the mapping comprising mapping attribute names of said one or more data attributes in the data schemas of the plurality of applications to attribute names of the common data object schema;

receiving from the plurality of applications data content associated with the mapped attribute names and storing the data content in a shared data management database providing the common data object schema;

augmenting said first set of mapped data with additional data imported into the shared data management system from other data locations to create an augmented set of mapped data;

receiving one or more of a second set of mapped data from one or more second shared data management systems associated respectively with one or more shared data management networks;

enabling of composing a data set by combining and cleansing one or more of said first set of mapped data, said second set of mapped data, and said augmented set of mapped data, the combining and cleansing comprising at least removing duplicated attributes with different names from different applications of the plurality of applications, and keeping different attributes with same names from different applications of the plurality of applications, wherein the data set is composed to comprise attribute names from the common data object schema, and generating a consolidated database of the plurality of applications; and

offering said composed data set in a digital marketplace by an auction,

wherein the plurality of applications deployed on the software as a service platform are allowed to exchange one or more data objects of the composed data set via the digital marketplace auction by requesting data trades and accepting data trade requests,

wherein a data export service allows an application requesting data trade to access the one or more data objects by at least providing a private data storage wherein the application can read the one or more data objects by data query language or by providing a set of application programming interface to allow the application to directly read the one or more data objects in the shared data management system,

the data trades between the plurality of applications integrating the plurality of applications that are running separately on at least one hardware processor.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7, further including:

identifying a quality measure based on voting or certification or both, the quality measure associated with characteristics of authenticity, reliability, and accuracy of database associated with said other data locations or the plurality of applications contributing to said data set.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 8, further including:

automatically assigning a pricing to the data set based on the quantified value and the quality measures.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9, further including:

displaying trade options for one or more buyers and sellers to trade said augmented set of mapped data.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, further including:

authenticating a buyer and a seller in response to a trade option being approved by the buyer and the seller.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, further including:

exporting purchased augmented data to said buyer from said shared data management system.

13. A system for open data marketplace, comprising:

a processor; and

a shared data management module operable to execute on the processor and further operable to identify one or more data attributes of data objects used by a plurality of applications registered with a shared data management system provided on software as a service platform, said one or more data attributes specified in data schemas of the plurality of applications, the shared data management module further operable to map said one or more data attributes to a data model to create a first set of mapped data, the data model being a common data object schema provided by the shared data management module that allows data trading and viewing of the data attributes in said data model, the shared data management module mapping attribute names of said one or more data attributes in the data schemas of the plurality of applications to attribute names of the common data object schema, the shared data management module further operable to receive from the plurality of applications data content associated with the mapped attribute names and store the data content in a shared data management database providing the common data object schema, the shared data management module further operable to augment said first set of mapped data with additional data imported into the shared data management system from other data locations to create an augmented set of mapped data, the shared data management module further operable to receive one or more of a second set of mapped data from one or more shared data management systems associated respectively with one or more shared data management networks, enable composing of a data set by combining and cleansing one or more of said first set of mapped data, said second set of mapped data, and said augmented set of mapped data, the combining and cleansing comprising at least removing duplicated attributes with different names from different applications of the plurality of applications, and keeping different attributes with same names from different applications of the plurality of applications, wherein the data set is composed to comprise attribute names from the common data object schema, and generating a consolidated database of the plurality of applications, the shared data management module further operable to offer said composed data set in a digital marketplace by an auction,

wherein the plurality of applications deployed on a software as the service platform are allowed to exchange one or more data objects of the composed data set via the digital marketplace auction by requesting data trades and accepting data trades requests,

wherein a data export service allows an application requesting data trade to access the one or more data objects by at least providing a private data storage wherein the application can read the one or more data objects by data query language or by providing a set of application programming interface to allow the application to directly read the one or more data objects in the shared data management system,

the data trades between the plurality of applications integrating the plurality of applications that are running separately on at least one hardware processor.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the shared management module is further operable to display trade options for one or more buyers and sellers to trade said augmented set of mapped data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the shared management module is further operable to authenticate a buyer and a seller in response to a trade option being approved by the buyer and the seller.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the shared management module is further operable to automatically assign a pricing to the data set.