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The second new track will be called Open Data. An increasing number of information owners are choosing to expose their data on the Web. Opening up data encourages its creative reuse, empowers citizens, and can create new commercial opportunities. Along with governments, commercial organizations and content owners such as Amazon, Google, and the BBC are experimenting with open data. At an individual level, exciting open data developments are happening through movements such as blogging and social networking.
The Open Data track will address concerns at all levels, from business and policy through to implementation, and cover topics such as open government, business models and deployment issues for public-facing web services, open access to scientific data, licensing and intellectual property concerns, blogging and personal content, and the Semantic Web.
