Kasabi for Data
Kasabi hosts and makes your data accessible to a wide audience. People can browse high-level information about each of your sets, and quickly learn about what’s available and what they can do with it. As the data’s owner—and you will always own your own data—you can select the licensing and let developers know what they’re allowed to do with it.
Every dataset gets its own APIs, with flexible access to developers and other interested people.
Kasabi is committed to keeping open data sustainably open (read more about that on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog).
We are currently working on business features to make it possible to make data commercially available.
Currently Kasabi provides:
- Hosting for your datasets
- Data access tools for powerful management
- Market listings for every individual dataset
- Crowdsourced APIs, letting data providers focus on their content
- Customised licensing for each dataset
As we build up our public beta, Kasabi is planned to include features such as:
- Pricing models for dataset sales
- Usage Statistics and trending information for the datasets
- Customised reporting for market analysis
- Tailored Terms and Conditions per dataset
Building Business with Data
We see Kasabi as an ideal place to explore business models around data. As it is developed through the beta period, and beyond, the features we add to the publishing side of the market will allow for a wide range of flexibility in selling and marketing data.
Currently, each dataset is be listed in Kasabi with information on the licensing, owner, and lots of details, making it easy to find and access. Each set is branded, so the identity of a provider is very clear. We have also built a specific tool for attribution of hosted datasets (the Attribution API), making it easy for any developer to state their information sources.
Dataset Publishing and Management
You can create a dataset from your dashboard (hint: click on your name at the top of Kasabi). From here, you can upload a branding image, set up the developer documentation, and set some sample resources for your data. You can then upload any RDF file, or point Kasabi at a URI for RDFa data to pull it into your newly-created set.
Every dataset has some automatic information displayed about it on its home page. As the provider, you can also provide information on where the data’s come from, outline the data model, and give some ideas for how you see the data being used. An example can be seen through the the Prelinger Archives dataset.
For more information on dataset publishing and management, have a look at:
Kasabi as a Community
Sharing data with the marketplace lets developers contribute their own perspectives on your data. You’ll be able to see how people find your information useful and learn about the applications and services they build with data like yours.
As we roll out features and build on the development community, the importance of data providers will always increase. So, if you’d like more information on listing your datasets in Kasabi, you can find us:
