
363Economics of Big Data
HTTP requests providing data in RDF. And The Guardian is offering an
MP Data SPARQL Editor
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from which data about British politicians can be
retrieved in RDF.
Despite these encouraging examples, companies have not yet embraced
the logic and culture of open publishing, especially when data assets are con-
cerned. Here, we face a typical chicken-and-egg-problem where the willing-
ness of opening up data sources heavily depends on the quantiable added
value that can be derived from such a strategy. Economic gains derived from
an open data strategy heavily vary by industry sector and structural factors
such as ...