Talis Connected Commons
The Talis Connected Commons scheme is intended to directly support the publishing and reuse of Linked Data in the public domain by removing the costs associated with those activities.
The scheme is intended to support a wide range of different forms of data publishing. For example scientific researchers seeking to share their research data; dissemination of public domain data from a variety of different charitable, public sector or volunteer organizations; open data enthusiasts compiling data sets to be shared with the web community.
For qualifying data sets, Talis will provide, through the Talis Platform:
- Free hosting of up to 50 million RDF triples and 10Gb of content
- Access to data access services that operate on that data, including data retrieval and text search
- Free access to a public SPARQL endpoint for each dataset.
This means that data set providers will not incur any of the commercial costs normally associated with hosting data on the Talis Platform. In addition neither the data set provider or its users will incur any usage charges relating to the use of the Platform services made available on that data.
To qualify for entry into the scheme all data and content hosted in the Platform must be made available under one of the following public domain data licenses:
For more information read the Connected Commons Frequently Asked Questions which provides some additional background and discussion, including some notes on your responsibilities as the data owner. A full set of terms and conditions for the scheme will be published shortly.
To apply for access to the Talis Platform under the Connected Commons scheme, please email platform@talis.com providing:
- Contact name and email address
- A title and brief description of your data set, ideally including some indication of not only the type of data that will be stored, but also the size of the data set
- Indication of which public domain license you will be using
We will then contact you to confirm when your access to the Platform will be available, and to discuss options for loading the data
